Sinjar Town News Today

Analysis in Arabic on Iraq about Recovery and Reconstruction; published on 6 Jun 2023 by HRW

The reconstruction of the Sinjar district in northern Iraq, which was heavily damaged in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS), is being held up by a political dispute over its administration.

Analysis in Arabic on Iraq about Protection and Human Rights; published on 9 May 2023 by HRW

Shafaq News / Iraqi authorities have failed to pay financial compensation that thousands of Yazidis and others from the Sinjar district are entitled to under Iraqi law for destruction of and damage to

Sinjars mayor has traveled with us to show us what remains of his city. when isis swept through his yazidi homeland where the men, women, and children were rounded up from the villages were driven. we go to the earth defenses circling the town. this was the site of an isis massacre. [ speaking foreign language ]. >> it breaks his heart, he says to leave the bones exposed like this to the elements. but no one has come to investigate, no one has come to document, so they dont want to undermine any...

A peshmerga source told cnn fighters are going house to house in areas now liberated from isis to check for my booby traps left behind. one journalist says its unclear why isis retreated. >> the coalition air strikes are very, very important. second whats important is the moral of the peshmerga. they fight with old weapons. they have kalashnikovs that are 40 years old, just a handful of the tanks. but the morale is very, very high. isis invaded their ground. isis raped their women. isis beheaded...