Yazidi Sect

Some women enslaved by the Islamic State were forced to undergo grim procedures even after they escaped the jihadists' clutches.

The Yazidis are a small, misunderstood and long-persecuted religious sect rooted in the town of Sinjar, in northern Iraq, and in parts of Syria and Turkey.

Some women enslaved by the Islamic State were forced to undergo grim procedures even after they escaped the jihadists' clutches.

The Yazidis are a small, misunderstood and long-persecuted religious sect rooted in the town of Sinjar, in northern Iraq, and in parts of Syria and Turkey.