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A 21-year-old Yazidi woman has been rescued from Gaza where she had been held captive by Hamas for years after being trafficked by ISIS. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Thursday that Fawzia ...
Fawzia Amin Sido (Kurdish: Fewziya Emîn Seydo, [6] فەوزییە ئەمین سیدۆ, [a] Arabic: فوزية أمين سيدو [3] [13]) is a Kurdish Yazidi woman from northern Iraq. She was captured by the Islamic State as a 10-year-old child, [ b ] during the Yazidi genocide in 2014.
A Yazidi woman who was kidnapped aged 11 in Iraq by the Islamic State group and subsequently taken to Gaza has been rescued after more than a decade in captivity there, officials said. The 21-year ...
The woman is a member of the ancient Yazidi religious minority mostly found in Iraq and Syria which saw more than 5,000 members killed and thousands more kidnapped in an IS campaign in 2014 that ...
Thousands were killed or abducted, including many women and girls subjected to sexual violence and enslavement. Ten years on, a traumatized Yazidi community is still convulsed by the legacy of IS’s brutal campaign, well after the group’s territorial defeat. Nearly 2,600 Yazidis are still considered missing, to the anguish of their families.
Nasrin As'ad Ibrahim (Arabic: نسرين أسعد إبراهيم), better known by the nom de guerre Umm Sayyaf (Arabic: ام سياف), is the widow of Abu Sayyaf.She was captured in May 2015 by US Delta Force soldiers on the mission where they killed her husband, a suspected leader of the Islamic State.
Dalal Khario (born circa 1997) is a Yazidi woman from northern Iraq who fled to Germany after escaping from ISIS. [1] On August 3, 2014, ISIS fighters conquered Sinjar and its surrounding villages around the Sinjar Mountains including Khario's native village of Hardan. Khario, then 17 years old, was abducted and spent nine months in captivity.
When Rihan Ismail returned to her family’s home in the heartland of her Yazidi community, she was sure she was coming back for good. Islamic State militants had abducted then-adolescent Ismail ...