by Rukmini Callimachi | Jul 29, 2017 | Middle East
SHARIYA CAMP, Iraq — The 16-year-old lies on her side on a mattress on the floor, unable to hold up her head. Her uncle props her up to drink water, but she can barely swallow. Her voice is so weak, he places his ear directly over her mouth to hear her. The girl,...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 20, 2017 | Features
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,...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 4, 2017 | Middle East
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...
by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Aug 10, 2016 | Opinion
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...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 16, 2016 | Middle East
United Nations investigators said on Thursday that ISIS is committing genocide against the Yazidis in Syria and Iraq, seeking to destroy the ethno-religious group of 400,000 people through killings, sexual slavery and other crimes. The Council of Inquiry on Syria...
