Yazidi's religion includes elements of several faiths, which is why IS considers them as infidels.
A statement from the Yazidi Progress Party said 300 captives were killed on Friday in the Tal Afar district near the city and the Iraqi Vice-President Osama al-Nujaifi described the reported deaths as "horrific and barbaric".
Alan Johnston, BBC WS Middle East Editor, stated that it is not clear how or why were Yazidi killed.
Hundreds of men were killed, while some Yazidi women were held and used as sex slaves.
In January, IS released some 200 mainly elderly Yazidis into the hands of Kurdish officials near the city of Kirkuk.
In December, Kurdish Peshmerga forces drove back IS militants in north-western Iraq, relieving a long siege of Sinjar mountain where thousands of Yazidis had sought refuge.
The Iraqi government, with forces backed by Iran, also declared it had taken back control of the city of Tikrit in April.
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