Yazidis in Syria live primarily in two communities , one in the Al-Jazira area and the other in the Kurd-Dagh . Population numbers for the Syrian Yazidi community are unclear . In 1963 , the community was estimated at about 10,000 , according to the national census , but numbers for 1987 were unavailable . There may be between about 12,000 and 15,000 Yazidis in Syria today , though more than half of the community may have emigrated from Syria since the 1980s . Estimates are further complicated by the arrival of as many as 50,000 Yazidi refugees from Iraq during the Iraq War . Since 2014 , some Yazidis of Iraq have entered Kurdish-controlled areas of Syria to escape the Genocide of Yazidis by ISIL
Genocide of Yazidis by ISIL
Genocide of Yazidis by ISIL
Yazidis in Syria