Baadre (also written Ba'adra, Badra or Bathra, (Arabic: باعدرة/باعذرة, Kurdish: باعەدرێ, romanized: Baedrê[2][3]) is a town located in the Shekhan District of the Ninawa Governorate in northern Iraq.

It belongs to the disputed territories of Northern Iraq.

[4] Baadre's residents are mostly Yazidis and is considered the political capital of the Yazidis[1] as it has been the base of the group's leader, the Mir.

[7] In Ba'athist Iraq, the population of Baadre was deported because of their support for Peshmerga.

[8] According to Shamal Adeeb, who was the town's mayor at the time, the town and the 10 villages in the vicinity took in 2,028 displaced families totaling 12,115 people fleeing the Sinjar massacre in 2014[1]