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Kocho (Kurdish: کۆچۆ, romanized: Koço; [1] [2] Arabic: كوجو [3]) is a village in Sinjar District, south of the Sinjar Mountains in the Nineveh Governorate of Iraq. It is considered one of the disputed territories of Northern Iraq and is populated by Yazidis. [4]
Getty Images. The Yazidi community of northern Iraq has brought home 104 of its members who were killed by the Islamic State group during its reign of terror in 2014. Their remains had been...
The Sinjar District or the Shingal District (Arabic: قضاء سنجار, Kurdish: قەزای شنگال ,Qeza Şingal [1] [2]) is a district of the Nineveh Governorate. The district seat is the town of Sinjar. The district has two subdistricts, al-Shemal and al-Qayrawan.
Sinjar (Arabic: سنجار, romanized: Sinjār; [2] Kurdish: شنگال, romanized: Şingal, Syriac: ܫܝܓܪ, romanized: Shingar [3]) is a town in the Sinjar District of the Nineveh Governorate in northern Iraq. It is located about five kilometers south of the Sinjar Mountains.
Aug 15, 2024 · KOCHO, Iraq (AP) — Ten years ago, their village in Iraq's Sinjar region was decimated by Islamic State militants. Yazidi men and boys were separated and massacred, Yazidi women and children...
Aug 19, 2022 · Sinjar, 19 August 2022 – On 3 August 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) launched its offensive in Sinjar – the ancestral homeland of Iraq’s Yezidis, a Kurdish-speaking ethnoreligious minority that has historically faced marginalization and persecution.
Aug 19, 2024 · A decade ago, on August 3, 2014, the Islamic State (ISIS) conquered the village of Kocho (Kojo) in the Sinjar (Shingal) area of northern Iraq. On August 15, it began massacring several...
