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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 ...
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 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 ...
Over a period of three years, Islamic State militants trafficked thousands of Yazidi women and girls and killed thousands of Yazidi men; [13] the United Nations reported that the Islamic State killed about 5,000 Yazidis [5] and trafficked about 10,800 Yazidi women and girls in a "forced conversion campaign" [14] [15] throughout Iraq.
After losing most of her family, Murad was held as an Islamic State sex slave for three months, alongside thousands of other Yazidi women and girls. Murad is the founder of Nadia's Initiative , a non-profit organization dedicated to "helping women and children victimized by genocide, mass atrocities, and human trafficking to heal and rebuild ...
A 21-year-old woman kidnapped by Islamic State militants in Iraq a decade ago was freed from Gaza this week in a secret operation months in the making that involved Israel, the United States and ...
In 1919, the Yazidis received permission from the Georgian government to register an organization called The National Council of Yazidis in Tbilisi. [3]In the late 1990s, the main issue among the Yazidi community of Georgia was the construction of a Yazidi temple and cultural centre on the outskirts of Tbilisi, which marked a significant milestone among the Yazidis of Transcaucasus, who had ...
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.