Despite facing years of executions and abuse by the Islamic State, Yazidis remain resilient. Each year, Yazidis gather at Lalish Temple in Dohuk to mark Red Wednesday, the Yazidi New Year.

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An Iraqi court on Wednesday sentenced the widow of former longtime Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi to death for enslaving kidnapped Yazidi women.

Widow of slain ISIS leader sentenced to death

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's wife held Yazidi women captured by the Islamic State in her home, according to Iraqi authorities. Watch to know more.

Iraq: baghdadi's wife to be hanged, death sentence for crimes against Yazidis

In Iraq, the minority Yazidi community celebrates the new year by lighting oil lamps at a sacred shrine. As Yazidis pray for a better future, their new year celebrations are also a reminder of the atrocities committed by the Islamic state group.

Yazidis celebrate fertility

Islamic State woman gets jail term in Germany for allowing Yazidi child to die

UN investigator says he has evidence of genocide against Iraq's Yazidis

Syria Kurds hand 12 children to their Iraqi Yazidi mothers

Yazidi children freed from IS haunted by health crisis, says Amnesty

Hundreds of Yazidi families driven from their hometown of Sinjar in northern Iraq years ago are now returning back

Hundreds of Yazidi families head back to Sinjar

In this segment of WION, we bring to you a story of a Yazidi woman, a survivor of human trafficking. Watch report.

WION Dispatch: Yazidi woman reunites with family in Iraq

Warzone atrocities against women: Former Yazidi sex slave confronts ISIS rapist on live tv

5 years after Islamic State massacre, an Iraqi minority is transformed by trauma

Pope pays tribute journalists killed; says press freedom vital

Children born to IS fathers not considered Yazidi: Council

German Islamic State woman accused of letting Yazidi 'slave' girl die of thirst

Nadia Murad was held captive as a sex slave. She survived rapes and tortures, and now urges the world to trial IS for genocide

Islamic State must stand trial for genocide: Yazidi woman survivor

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