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Souhayla, a 16-year-old girl who escaped ISIS after three years of captivity, at her uncle’s home in Shariya Camp, Iraq. Credit Alex Potter for The New York Times
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Yazidi fighter Heza prepares her rifle in an abandoned home used as a base on the eastern outskirts of Raqqa. Bulent Kilic, AFP
Yazidi Female Fighters at Raqqa’s Battlefront to Free Women Taken Hostage
Raqqa- She was trafficked into Raqqa as a slave by ISIS but managed to escape. Now Yazidi fighter Heza is back to avenge the horrors she and thousands of others suffered. “When I started fighting, I lifted some of the worries from my heart,” she says,...Caption:
Ayman, a boy from a minority Yazidi community, who was sold by ISIS to a Muslim couple in Mosul, is greeted by his relative after he was returned to his Yazidi family in Duhok, Iraq, January 31, 2017. Reuters
Yazidi Child Reunited with Family after he was Sold by ISIS
Mosul- His name was Ayman, but the couple who brought the boy home to their Iraqi village after buying him for $500 called him Ahmed. ISIS militants had killed or enslaved Ayman’s parents in their purge of the Yazidi religious minority to which he belongs, then...Caption:
Opinion: Nadia Murad – The Story That Shames Us
A young girl, members of her family, girls from her village and from Iraqi Yazidi villages were kidnapped by ISIS fighters who gang raped them. All of this was done in the name of Islam and under its banner at a time when there are still a handful of extremists among...Caption:
Members of the Yazidi minority sect who were newly released wait along a road on the outskirts of Kirkuk, April 8, 2015. REUTERS/Ako Rasheed