Headlines- After a temporary suspension, Emirates said the airline "will resume operations."
- On Saturday, US President Donald Trump said that Iran will be "hit very hard" and that he was thinking about extending the strikes to other targets..
- At least five ballistic missile launches from Iran have been detected by the Israelis since midnight.
- Mehrabad Airport in Tehran is hit by strikes
- The Prince Sultan Air Base was the target of a ballistic missile that Saudi Arabia's military intercepted and destroyed, according to the country's defense ministry.
- Heavy gunfire on Friday injured three peacekeepers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon inside their base in southwest Lebanon.
- To put an end to the bloodshed, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged serious diplomatic negotiations..
- In a social media post, President Trump said that "no deal" other than "unconditional surrender" will be with Iran.
- Iran reportedly receives intelligence from Russia on US targets.
Tag: Yazidis
10 Years After IS Genocide Displaced...
The Yazidi ethno-religious minority in northern Iraq suffered enormous displacement and extermination at the hands of the terrorist group Islamic State ten years ago this month. At the Iraqi government’s urging, thousands of people returned home this year. However, as Kawa Omar of VOA reports, many are now living in sweltering tents on their ruined properties.
After Years of Displacement, More Yazidis...
Islamic State group fighters assaulted the Yazidi minority in Iraq in 2014, forcing them from their homes. After years of being displaced, some refugees are now returning to their hometowns.
Yazidis Still Seeking Justice Seven Years...
in Iraq and around the world are remembering the 7th anniversary of an Islamic State atrocity in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, which killed members of the religious minority. Survivors and campaigners for the Yazidi people say the world community must advocate justice for them
Yazidi Victims Choir
When the Islamic State terror group swept across northern Iraq in 2014, they tried to wipe out the Yazidi people, a minority ethnic group that had lived in the mountains for millennia. Thousands of men were killed, and women and girls forcibly enslaved. The ancient Yazidi culture was at risk of being eradicated
Yazidi Family Reunites in Germany After...
After surviving the Islamic State genocide in Sinjar, Iraq, in 2014 and being separated for five years, a Yazidi family of nine finally had a happy reunion in Germany
Roughly 30 Yazidi Bodies Exhumed in...
In recent weeks, Iraqi and United Nations workers have exhumed what they believe to be the remains of 30 bodies of Yazidi victims of IS from one of the dozens of mass graves in the region.
Nadia Murad — From Jihadists’ Captive...
The Yazidi cause has won a high-profile supporter — Lebanese-British lawyer and rights activist Amal Clooney, who was at the Nobel ceremony and also penned the foreword to Murad’s book, “The Last Girl,” published in 2017