The KRG’s Relationship with the Yazidi Minority and the Future of the Yazidis in Shingal (By Matthew Barber)

The KRG’s Relationship with the Yazidi Minority and the Future of the Yazidis in Shingal (By Matthew Barber)

Following the closure of Yazda, a Yazidi humanitarian and human rights organization, by the KDP asa’ish (security police affiliated with Kurdistan’s largest political party, the Kurdistan Democratic Party) on January 2, 2017 in Dohuk, people have been asking many questions about why this

Yet Another War in Shingal: The Sword of Damocles (By Tomáš Kaválek)

Yet Another War in Shingal: The Sword of Damocles (By Tomáš Kaválek)

During the morning of Friday 3 March, clashes broke out between the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party)-linked Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ) and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)-linked Rojava Peshmerga units consisting of Syrian Kurds, while the latter made an attempt to enter the town