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Thousands of Yazidi women and girls were forced into sexual slavery by the Sunni fundamentalist majority-Arab terrorist group ISIL, and thousands of Yazidi men were killed. [45] Five thousand Yazidi civilians were killed [ 46 ] during what has been called a " forced conversion campaign" [ 47 ] [ 48 ] being carried out by ISIL in Northern Iraq.
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.
A United Nations report issued on 2 October 2014, based on 500 interviews with witnesses, said that IS took 450–500 women and girls to Iraq's Nineveh region in August, where "150 unmarried girls and women, predominantly from the Yazidi and Christian communities, were reportedly transported to Syria, either to be given to ISIL fighters as a ...
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 ...
Yazidis fled to the heights to escape IS, as they have done in past bouts of persecution. In Sinjar town, the district center, soldiers lounge in front of small shops on the main street.
Now 18, the Yazidi girl was abducted from her village of Kocho, 15 miles south of Sinjar, Iraq, in 2014, Ali told CBS News. She was one of more than 6,000 Yazidi women and girls believed to have ...
Yazidi Peshmerga at the shrine of Sharaf ad-Din in the Sinjar Mountains, 2019. Captured women were treated as sex slaves or spoils of war; some were driven to suicide. Women and girls who converted to Islam were sold as brides; those who refuse to convert were tortured, raped and eventually murdered. Babies born in the prison where the women ...
Roza Barakat's tormentors have been defeated, but the horrors she endured still hold her captive. Torn from her family in the town of Sinjar, the enclave of the ancient religious Yazidi minority ...