Section: Humanitarian
Iraq's New Government and the Turkmen Question: A Community of Millions With No Seat at the Table
JUNE 1, 2026 · HUSSEIN MONITOR Iraq's New Government and the Turkmen Question: A Community of Millions With No Seat at the Table Iraq's Turkmen community — the country's third largest ethnic group, with a population esti…
1 June 2026
Camp Speicher: 1,700 Killed in One Day — Iraq's Largest Single ISIS Massacre and the Unfinished Reckoning
Camp Speicher: 1,700 Killed in One Day — Iraq's Largest Single ISIS Massacre and the Unfinished Reckoning On June 12, 2014 — two days after ISIS seized Mosul — the group executed between 1,500 and 1,700 Iraqi Air Force c…
31 May 2026
450 Turkmen Women Kidnapped by ISIS — A Decade of Silence and Unanswered Justice
450 Turkmen Women Kidnapped by ISIS — A Decade of Silence and Unanswered Justice In June 2014, ISIS seized Tal Afar and surrounding Turkmen towns in northwestern Iraq. Within days, an estimated 450 Turkmen women and girl…
3 May 2026
Iraq's Yazidi Survivors Law: A Landmark Step That Left the Turkmen Behind
Iraq's Yazidi Survivors Law: A Landmark Step That Left the Turkmen Behind In 2021, Iraq passed a groundbreaking law recognizing Yazidi survivors of ISIS as victims of genocide and providing reparations. It was celebrated…
5 April 2026
They Escaped ISIS — But Did They Find Freedom? The Ongoing Struggle of Yazidi and Turkmen Survivors
They Escaped ISIS — But Did They Find Freedom? The Ongoing Struggle of Yazidi and Turkmen Survivors For the women who survived ISIS captivity, escape was not the end of the ordeal — it was the beginning of a different on…
1 April 2025
Ten Years Since the Fall of Tal Afar: A Community Displaced, Women Still Missing, and Justice Still Waiting
JUNE 15, 2024 · HUSSEIN MONITOR Ten Years Since the Fall of Tal Afar: A Community Displaced, Women Still Missing, and Justice Still Waiting In June 2014, ISIS seized Tal Afar and erased a community in days. Ten years lat…
14 June 2024
Iraq's IDP Camps: Open Prisons for a Million People
Iraq's IDP Camps: Open Prisons for a Million People By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com Nearly a decade after ISIS swept through northern Iraq, approximately 1.2 …
12 February 2023