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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 ...
Rasho was freed by ransom after seven months in captivity but she has yet to rebuild her life - one of about 200,000 Yazidis too afraid, six years on, to return to towns ruined by the ISIS assault ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...