Since the Islamic State swept into Sinjar in August, 2014, the women have been treated as property of the group's fighters, who marry, trade, or sell them.
The attack, which consisted of a motorcycle and truck bombing, took place in the Kurdish city of Qamishli near the Turkish border early Wednesday morning.
A new report from the research wing of the Canadian military suggests that table-top board games could force military planners to think through their decisions in foreign intervention.
Iraqi officials say they will retake Mosul this year but many question whether the army, which partially collapsed when IS overran a third of the country in June 2014, will be ready in time.
Mohamad Khweis, a 26-year-old from Virginia, surrendered to Peshmerga militiamen near Sinjar in Iraq on Monday. In a heavily edited interview, he spoke to Kurdish TV about life in Islamic State's self-styled caliphate.
During a joint news conference with Turkey's prime minister, the US vice president described the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) as a terror group "plain and simple."
VICE News photographer Frederick Paxton has made multiple trips to cover the plight of the Yazidi people and the fight against the Islamic State in Sinjar, Iraq, over the last year.
We spoke with young Frenchman fighting for Kurdish YPG forces in northern Syria about the Paris attacks, Westerners on the battlefield, and the current offensive against the Islamic State.
VICE News embedded with peshmerga forces as they retook Sinjar with the hopes of cutting off the resupply routes between Islamic State territory territory in Syria and Iraq.
VICE News embedded with peshmerga forces as they retook Sinjar with the hopes of cutting off the resupply routes between Islamic State territory territory in Syria and Iraq.
