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As the Yazidi genocide marks its 12th anniversary, a landmark Truth Commission is seeking justice for survivors like Fawzia and thousands still missing

Anam Alam
03 September, 2026
Zeinab Ahmad, one of two women linked to alleged Islamic State jihadists, is seen being taken away in an armoured police vehicle outside the Melbourne Magistrates' Court in Melbourne on 8 May 2026. [Getty]
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Soldiers from the National Front for the Liberation of Azawad (FLA) gather near a pick-up truck as they control a street corner in Kidal, on May 8
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Roj camp [Getty]
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 Interior Minister Anas Khattab
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Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein gives a press conference during the official visit of French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot in Baghdad on February 5, 2026.
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An aerial photograph shows parts of the Syrian northeastern city of Raqa, once the Islamic State group's de facto capital in Syria, on January 21, 2026.
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A young girl disembarks a bus that transferred hundreds of people from Al Hol camp in Hasaka Governorate,
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Roj camp [Getty]
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This picture shows a view of the Bajet Kandala camp for displaced Yazidis near Dohuk, 430 kilometres (260 miles) northwest of the Iraqi capital, by the border with Syria, on November 18, 2020
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