Ba'adra
Ba'adra is a Yazidi town located in the Shekhan District of the Ninawa Governorate in northern Iraq. The town is located in the Nineveh plains. It belongs to the disputed territories of Northern Iraq.
Ba'adra's residents are mostly Yazidis and is considered the political capital of the Yazidis as it has been the base of the group's leader, the Mir.
History
The village was originally an Assyrian village known as Bet Edrai.
In Ba'athist Iraq, the population of Ba'adra was deported because of their support for Peshmerga.
In 2014 the city and its surrounding 10 villages took in 2,028 additional displaced families totaling 12,115 people due to the Yazidi fleeing the Sinjar massacre according to Shamal Adeeb, the city's mayor at the time.
