Iraq's Yazidis attend the funeral of Mir Takhsin-Beg (Tahseen Said Ali), hereditary leader of the Yazidi community in the world, in the town of Sheikhan.
The longtime head of the world's Yazidis, a minority whose Iraqi community was ferociously targeted by the Islamic State group, died in Germany after a long illness, officials said.
Prince Tahseen died in the KRH Siloah Hospital in Hanover at the age of 85, according to head of the Iraqi Kurdish Kegion's head of Yazidi affairs Khairi Buzani.
Tahseen was born in 1933 in Iraq's northwest Sheikhan district and appointed head of the Yazidis at the age 11 after the death of his father, the previous emir.
He later moved to Germany, home to one of the biggest expatriate Yazidi community.
The Yazidi faith emerged in Iran more than 4,000 years ago and is rooted in Zoroastrianism, over time, integrating elements of Islam and Christianity.
