ISIS militants are believed to have kidnapped more than 6,000 Yazidi women and girls as they overran the Sinjar mountains in northern Iraq in 2014. Many were sold as sex slaves and then sold or traded between the terrorists during their years in control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria....
ISIS militants are believed to have kidnapped more than 6,000 Yazidi women and girls as they overran the Sinjar mountains in northern Iraq in 2014. Many were sold as sex slaves and then sold or traded between the terrorists during their years in control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria....
This month, the Yazidis will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the ISIS massacre when thousands were killed by the extremists and more than 6,000 women and children were kidnapped.
Thousands of men were killed and women and children were enslaved and raped when Islamic State fanatics overran the ancestral home of the Yazidis in 2014. Friday 9 August 2024 04:07, UK Yazidis This is a modal window. Video Unavailable ...
Again, women in the Global South became objects of global media discourse as a “Yazidi rape and enslavement” narrative began to dominate much of the domestic and international news about ISIS (Shackle, 2015). Stories ran with sensationalist headlines such as, “Yazidi woman held as sex ...
"Iraq's security forces freed six women and their six children abducted by IS terrorists from Mosul," Yahya Rasoul, spokesman of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command, said in a statement. "A joint force acted on intelligence reports and launched an operation to free the abducted women and child...
In 2014, when IS militants took control of large swathes in northern and central Iraq, the extremist militants killed thousands of Yazidis and kidnapped thousands of their women and children. The security situation in Iraq was dramatically improved after Iraqi security forces fully defeated the extrem...
UNITED NATIONS, May 1 (Xinhua) -- A group of 36 Yazidi survivors ofIraqhave recently been rescued from slavery, having been held in captivity by the IS for nearly three years, a UN spokesperson said Monday. The Yazidi women and girls are currently being cared for at dedicated service poi...
The Iraqi government claims ISIS killed at least 500 Yazidis, burying some alive and taking hundreds of women as slaves. The Iraqi government claimed “Some of the victims, including women and children, were buried alive in scattered mass graves in and around Sinjar.” This was reported by wes...
“The next day, they killed the old women and led the young girls, including me, to Mosul. “In Mosul, I saw thousands of Yazidi women where they were distributed to their slave masters. Hint: it was justified in the name of Abraham’s god. Independent, ‘I...