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Saman Dawod

Saman Dawod is a Yazidi journalist specializing in Iraqi minority issues. On Twitter: @saman1dawod

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Turkish attacks stop displaced Iraqi Yazidis from returning home

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Kakais Najwa Hamid (KDP) and Ahlam Ramazan (PUK) were elected to Iraqi parliament in October 2021.

Kakai minority scores two seats in Iraqi parliament

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A woman looks on at the waste dump of Diwaniyah where families live in the rubbish with no electricity or drinking water, on March 25, 2018.

Iraqi Kurdistan water crisis blamed on climate and Iran

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Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community, who fled violence between Islamic State (IS) group jihadists and Peshmerga fighters in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, sit in a field near a camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) in the Sharya area some 15 kilometres from the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk on May 20, 2015.

Iraq's Yazidis call for autonomy as conflict flares between army, PKK affiliates

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Staff at Iraqi forensics lab Medico-Legal Directorate in eastern Baghdad inspect samples on June 19, 2019. - The bones, recently exhumed from mass graves in the Yazidi stronghold of Sinjar in northwest Iraq, will be compared with blood samples from surviving members of the community to help determine the fates of those still missing after the Islamic State group's 2014 sweep across their villages. Entire families were massacred, boys recruited to fight and women and girls forced into "sex slavery" in what t

Neglected Yazidi mass graves finally exhumed in Iraq

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Yazidi students achieve highest marks in Iraq entrance exams to universities

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Iraqi Yazidis take part in a religious ceremony at the Temple of Lalish, in a valley near the Kurdish city of Dohuk, about 430km northwest of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, on October 10, 2019. - Of the 550,000 Yazidis in Iraq before the Islamic State (IS) group invaded their region in 2014, around 100,000 have emigrated abroad and 360,000 remain internally displaced. (Photo by SAFIN HAMED / AFP) (Photo by SAFIN HAMED/AFP via Getty Images)

Yazidis still negotiating return of kidnapped women, children

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Amid public pressure, Iraq suspends transfer of IS families to Zummar camp

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Iraq to exhume bodies from Yazidi mass graves

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