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Sinjar 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. Its population in 2013 was estimated at 88,023,
Sinjar in 2019
Coin of Qutb al-Din, the Zengid ruler of Sinjar in 1197–1219, with representation of Roman Emperor Caracalla, Sinjar mint 1199.
Coin of Qutb al-Din Muhammad bin Zengi, Zengid Atabeg of Sinjar (1197–1219). Sinjar mint. Dated AH 607 (AD 1210-1).
The important Chermera temple (meaning '40 Men') is found on the highest peak of the Sinjar Mountains.
Sinjar massacre
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The Sinjar massacre marked the beginning of the genocide of Yazidis by ISIL, the killing and abduction of thousands of Yazidi men, women and children. It took place in August 2014 in Sinjar city and S
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…Following the withdrawal of the Kurdish Peshmerga they captured the city of Sinjar on 3 August. During the following days, IS militants perpetrated the Sinjar massacre, killing 2,000 Yazidi men and taking Yazidi women into slavery, leading to a mass exodus of Yazidi residents. According to a United Nations report…
A Yazidi mass grave in Sinjar, pictured in 2015
President Obama meeting with his national security advisors on 7 August 2014
Demonstration in Paris against persecution of Kurds and Yazidis.
Defend International reaching out to Yazidi refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan, December 2014