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'Hoped We Would Be Killed, Not Raped': ISIS Slave, Now Free, Returns Home
Nadia Murad made an emotional return on Thursday to the Yazidi village in northern Iraq where she was captured and sold as a slave by ISIS three years ago.
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'Virgin. Beautiful. 12 Years Old': ISIS' Chilling Ads To Sell Sex Slaves
The advertisement on the Telegram app is as chilling as it is incongruous: A girl for sale is "Virgin. Beautiful. 12 years old.... Her price has reached $12,500 and she will be sold soon."
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ISIS Continue To Commit Genocide Against Yazidis: United Nations
ISIS terrorists are still committing genocide against the Yazidi minority in Iraq and Syria, United Nations rights investigators said on Thursday.
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ISIS Has Committed Genocide In Iraq And Syria, Says John Kerry
The ISIS terrorist group has committed genocide against minority Christians and Yazidis as well as Shia Muslims, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday, a finding that is unlikely to greatly change US policy toward the group.
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ISIS' Persecution Of Yazidis Is Genocide: Hillary Clinton
US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday said that ISIS violence against Iraqi Yazidis and other religious minorities in the Middle East is genocide.
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Islamic State Committing Genocide Against Yazidis in Iraq: Report
The Islamic State group is committing genocide against Iraq's Yazidi community, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum said in a report Thursday based on harrowing interviews detailing rape, torture and murder.
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Yazidis Urge International Criminal Court to Open Probe Into Islamic State Atrocities
Iraq's Yazidi minority -- the target of brutal attacks from the Islamic State group -- urged the International Criminal Court today to launch probes into the militants for genocide and sexual slavery.
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Yazidi Militia Killed 21 in Iraq Revenge Attack: Amnesty International
Members of the Yazidi community, one of the Iraqi minorities hardest hit by jihadist atrocities, killed 21 Sunni Arab villagers in a January revenge attack, Amnesty International said today.
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Islamic State Frees Over 200 Yazidis in Iraq: Kurdish Officer
The Islamic State group has freed more than 200 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority it held captive for months, a commander in the Kurdish peshmerga security forces said Wednesday.
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French Foreign Minister Warns Middle East Minorities Could 'Disappear Entirely'
Christians, Yazidis and other religious minorities under attack in the Middle East could "disappear entirely" unless the world takes action to protect them, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Friday.
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Islamic State Likely Committing Genocide Against Yazidi Minority in Iraq, Says UN
Islamic State jihadists may have committed genocide in trying to wipe out the Yazidi minority in Iraq, a UN report today.
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Islamic State Frees Around 350 Yazidi Captives in Iraq's North
Islamic State freed around 350 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority on Saturday, delivering them to safety in the country's Kurdish north.
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Sex Slavery Pushing Iraq Islamic State Victims To Suicide
The Islamic State jihadist group has abducted women and children from Iraq's Yazidi minority, distributed them as spoils of war and forced them into sexual slavery, driving some to suicide.
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Islamic State Onslaught on Yazidis May be Attempted Genocide: UN
The campaign of Islamic State militants against Iraq's Yazidi minority may be attempted genocide, UN Assistant Secretary-General for human rights Ivan Simonovic said on Tuesday.
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Islamic State Video Shows Conversion of Yazidis to Islam
Islamic State, a militant group that witnesses and officials say has executed hundreds of members of Iraq's Yazidis, has released a video that seeks to show it enlightened hundreds of members of the religious minority by converting them to Islam.
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'Hoped We Would Be Killed, Not Raped': ISIS Slave, Now Free, Returns Home
Nadia Murad made an emotional return on Thursday to the Yazidi village in northern Iraq where she was captured and sold as a slave by ISIS three years ago.
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'Virgin. Beautiful. 12 Years Old': ISIS' Chilling Ads To Sell Sex Slaves
The advertisement on the Telegram app is as chilling as it is incongruous: A girl for sale is "Virgin. Beautiful. 12 years old.... Her price has reached $12,500 and she will be sold soon."
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ISIS Continue To Commit Genocide Against Yazidis: United Nations
ISIS terrorists are still committing genocide against the Yazidi minority in Iraq and Syria, United Nations rights investigators said on Thursday.
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ISIS Has Committed Genocide In Iraq And Syria, Says John Kerry
The ISIS terrorist group has committed genocide against minority Christians and Yazidis as well as Shia Muslims, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday, a finding that is unlikely to greatly change US policy toward the group.
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ISIS' Persecution Of Yazidis Is Genocide: Hillary Clinton
US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday said that ISIS violence against Iraqi Yazidis and other religious minorities in the Middle East is genocide.
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Islamic State Committing Genocide Against Yazidis in Iraq: Report
The Islamic State group is committing genocide against Iraq's Yazidi community, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum said in a report Thursday based on harrowing interviews detailing rape, torture and murder.
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Yazidis Urge International Criminal Court to Open Probe Into Islamic State Atrocities
Iraq's Yazidi minority -- the target of brutal attacks from the Islamic State group -- urged the International Criminal Court today to launch probes into the militants for genocide and sexual slavery.
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Yazidi Militia Killed 21 in Iraq Revenge Attack: Amnesty International
Members of the Yazidi community, one of the Iraqi minorities hardest hit by jihadist atrocities, killed 21 Sunni Arab villagers in a January revenge attack, Amnesty International said today.
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Islamic State Frees Over 200 Yazidis in Iraq: Kurdish Officer
The Islamic State group has freed more than 200 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority it held captive for months, a commander in the Kurdish peshmerga security forces said Wednesday.
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French Foreign Minister Warns Middle East Minorities Could 'Disappear Entirely'
Christians, Yazidis and other religious minorities under attack in the Middle East could "disappear entirely" unless the world takes action to protect them, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Friday.
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Islamic State Likely Committing Genocide Against Yazidi Minority in Iraq, Says UN
Islamic State jihadists may have committed genocide in trying to wipe out the Yazidi minority in Iraq, a UN report today.
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Islamic State Frees Around 350 Yazidi Captives in Iraq's North
Islamic State freed around 350 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority on Saturday, delivering them to safety in the country's Kurdish north.
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Sex Slavery Pushing Iraq Islamic State Victims To Suicide
The Islamic State jihadist group has abducted women and children from Iraq's Yazidi minority, distributed them as spoils of war and forced them into sexual slavery, driving some to suicide.
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Islamic State Onslaught on Yazidis May be Attempted Genocide: UN
The campaign of Islamic State militants against Iraq's Yazidi minority may be attempted genocide, UN Assistant Secretary-General for human rights Ivan Simonovic said on Tuesday.
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Islamic State Video Shows Conversion of Yazidis to Islam
Islamic State, a militant group that witnesses and officials say has executed hundreds of members of Iraq's Yazidis, has released a video that seeks to show it enlightened hundreds of members of the religious minority by converting them to Islam.
