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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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Munich court on Tuesday sentenced a German woman who was a member of the Islamic State group to 14 years in prison for allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as a slave in ...