### [2016-08-30](/feed/2016/08/30/index.md)

##### Sinjar massacre
# Thousands of Yazidi are believed to be buried in 72 newly-discovered mass graves left by ISIL after the 2014 massacre. 




### Sources:

1. [The Daily Mail](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3764591/IS-buried-thousands-72-mass-graves-AP-finds.html)

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1. [Fawzia Amin Sido, a Yazidi woman who had been kidnapped at age 11 by the Islamic State in 2014 in Iraq and sold and trafficked to Gaza, is freed from captivity in Gaza following a secret operation involving the United States and Israel. The woman's captor is believed to have previously been killed in an Israeli airstrike. ](/feed/2024/10/3/fawzia-amin-sido-a-yazidi-woman-who-had-been-kidnapped-at-age-11-by-the-islamic-state-in-2014-in-iraq-and-sold-and-traf.md) _Context: Yazidi_
2. [A criminal court in Baghdad, Iraq, sentences the widow of Islamic State caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to death over her ties to the Islamic State and for detaining Yazidi women in her house. ](/feed/2024/07/10/a-criminal-court-in-baghdad-iraq-sentences-the-widow-of-islamic-state-caliph-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-to-death-over-her-ti.md) _Context: Yazidi_
3. [A court in Munich, Germany, sentences an Islamic State-affiliated 30-year-old woman to 10 years in prison for allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl to die from thirst in Iraq. The woman was found guilty on multiple charges, including some related to terrorism. ](/feed/2021/10/25/a-court-in-munich-germany-sentences-an-islamic-state-affiliated-30-year-old-woman-to-10-years-in-prison-for-allowing-a.md) _Context: Yazidi_
4. [President Obama announces that U.S airstrikes broke the IS siege of Mount Sinjar, allowing thousands of Yazidi refugees to escape, and declares plans for further airstrikes against IS forces. ](/feed/2014/08/14/president-obama-announces-that-us-airstrikes-broke-the-is-siege-of-mount-sinjar-allowing-thousands-of-yazidi-refugees.md) _Context: Yazidi_
5. [The United Nations says the persecution of the Yazidi by ISIS may be genocide. ](/feed/2014/08/8/the-united-nations-says-the-persecution-of-the-yazidi-by-isis-may-be-genocide.md) _Context: Yazidi_
6. [The Islamic State seizes the Yazidi-dominated town of Sinjar. ](/feed/2014/08/3/the-islamic-state-seizes-the-yazidi-dominated-town-of-sinjar.md) _Context: Yazidi_