​This study examines the forced migration and internal displacement of ethnic and religious minorities in the "disputed" areas of Iraq, with a focus on the Yazidi minority. Since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the residents of these areas have been targeted by "jihadist" organizations and armed groups, especially members of non-Muslim religious minorities, reaching a peak when the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) invaded most of those areas in 2014 and committed genocidal operations against the Yazidis. The flight, displacement, and forced migration of Yazidis occurred in the Kurdish areas in the north, and to the Arab areas in central and southern Iraq, as one of the groups that were almost completely displaced to the cities of the autonomous Kurdistan region. This study covers the contextual developments and gaps related to an Iraqi minority in the disputed areas, and mainly discusses the factors and obstacles behind any return of displaced Yazidis to the Sinjar area.