The Khidr Elias festival unites Yazidis, Turkmen, and Arabs in Iraq, celebrating the transition from winter to spring.

Google's online calendar has removed default references for a handful of holidays and cultural events — with users noticing that mentions of Pride and Black History Month, as well as other observances ...

His legacy stands as a strong reminder of the sacrifices made by Kurdistan’s defenders during one of the most difficult periods in its history. Remembering a Hero On this 10th anniversary of his ...

A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced a 52-year-old woman to 12 years in prison on genocide charges, in the country's first ...

A court in Stockholm on Tuesday convicted a Swedish woman of genocide, crimes against humanity and gross war crimes committed in Syria in 2015 against women and children of the Yazidi religious ...

Reminders of Germany’s Nazi past are everywhere in the city of Pforzheim. Small brass “stumble stones” dotted through the streets mark the homes of Jewish people who were deported and murdered.

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...

Thikran Mato, a survivor of the Yazidi genocide who spent two years held in captivity by ISIS ... He explained that skepticism is a common reaction to genocides throughout history, so virtual reality ...

"There was blood everywhere," 16-year-old Linn told reporters at the scene of what has been described by Sweden's prime minister as the worst mass shooting in the country's history. Eleven people ...

described Tuesday's attack as a dark day in Swedish history. "Together, we must help the injured and their relatives bear the grief and weight of this day," he said.

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The federal government is to spend $4 million to establish a new national Holocaust education centre in Canberra, presumably to placate Netanyahu and those accusing it of being antisemitic. But it ...