Sheikh Khairy Khedr

– 22 October 2014) was the Commander and founder of the Yazidi militia Malik Al-Tawus Troop, which later became the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ).

The community of Siba Sheikh Khidir is located about 20 km south of the Sinjar Mountains.

Siba Sheikh Khidir was one of the first settlements attacked by the Islamic State (IS) on 3 August 2014 at the beginning of the Sinjar massacre.

[1][2] He was mortally wounded, on 22 October, by an Islamic State mortar rocket that also wounded a second Sinjar Resistance Unit fighter and killed another, and he died five hours later.

[3] Medical assistance was not available in time because the fighters and many Yazidi civilians had been surrounded on the Sinjar Mountains.