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'Somebody Had To Tell These Stories': An Iraqi Woman's Ordeal As An ISIS Sex Slave
Islamic State militants have lost the last of their strongholds, but for Yazidi survivor Nadia Murad, a new battle is just beginning.
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ISIS Rapes And Tortures Sunni Arab Women Too: Human Rights Watch
Fighters from the terror group ISIS, whose abuses against Yazidi women have been well documented, are raping and torturing Sunni Arab women too, Human Rights Watch said Monday.
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European Union Parliament Awards Sakharov Prize To Yazidi Women
The European Parliament has awarded its Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought and expression to Nadia Murad and Lamiya Aji Bashar, two women from Iraq's Yazidi community who suffered attack and persecution by ISIS.
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'No Matter The Price', Amal Clooney Seeks Justice For Yazidi Sex Slaves
ISIS terrorists who have enslaved, murdered and raped Yazidi women and children must be brought to justice, no matter the price, international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney said on Monday.
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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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A Yazidi Woman Shares Her Story Of Terror At The Hands Of The Islamic State
On Aug. 15, 2014, Islamic State fighters who had surrounded her small Iraqi town for days ordered Nadia Murad and other Yazidis to walk to the local school, where men were to head upstairs, women downstairs. A sight along the way terrified the 20-year-old even more: backhoes at work. She'd seen videos of Islamic State fighters filling mass graves. ...
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Iraqi Forces Free Group Of Yazidi Women From ISIS: Ministry
Iraqi security forces freed a group of Yazidi women held captive by ISIS in a covert operation behind the group's lines, a defence ministry statement said on Wednesday.It did not say how many women were freed, when or where.
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Yazidi Women, Girls Seek Healing In Germany After ISIS 'Hell'
One eight-year-old was repeatedly sold and raped, while another girl set herself on fire to make herself less attractive to her terrorist captors.
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Some Islamic State's Former Sex Slaves Were Forced To Have 'Virginity Tests' After Escaping
Some women enslaved by the Islamic State were forced to undergo grim procedures even after they escaped the jihadists' clutches.
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Mass Grave of 'Yazidi Women Executed By ISIS' Found in Iraq
A mass grave believed to hold the remains of dozens of Yazidi women executed by the Islamic State group was found Saturday in northern Iraq, officials said.
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'I Want a Blue-Eyed Yazidi': Teen Describes Islamic State Slave Market
Kidnapped, beaten, sold and raped: the Islamic State group is running an international market in Iraq where Christian and Yazidi women are sold as sexual slaves, a teenager who escaped told AFP Tuesday.
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Female Yazidi Captives Forced to Give Blood to Wounded Islamist Fighters: Survivor
Female Yazidi captives are being forced to donate blood to wounded Islamic State (IS) fighters, according to a pregnant teenager who escaped after being seized and held captive by IS militants.
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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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John Kerry Slams 'Abhorrent' Yazidi Slavery by Islamic State Militants
US Secretary of State John Kerry slammed the Islamic State group for "abhorrent" abuses on Tuesday after the jihadists boasted of selling captured women and girls as slaves.
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Islamic State Jihadists Boast of Enslaving Yazidis
The Islamic State jihadist group says that it has given Yazidi women and children captured in northern Iraq to its fighters as spoils of war, boasting it had revived slavery.
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'Somebody Had To Tell These Stories': An Iraqi Woman's Ordeal As An ISIS Sex Slave
Islamic State militants have lost the last of their strongholds, but for Yazidi survivor Nadia Murad, a new battle is just beginning.
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ISIS Rapes And Tortures Sunni Arab Women Too: Human Rights Watch
Fighters from the terror group ISIS, whose abuses against Yazidi women have been well documented, are raping and torturing Sunni Arab women too, Human Rights Watch said Monday.
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European Union Parliament Awards Sakharov Prize To Yazidi Women
The European Parliament has awarded its Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought and expression to Nadia Murad and Lamiya Aji Bashar, two women from Iraq's Yazidi community who suffered attack and persecution by ISIS.
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'No Matter The Price', Amal Clooney Seeks Justice For Yazidi Sex Slaves
ISIS terrorists who have enslaved, murdered and raped Yazidi women and children must be brought to justice, no matter the price, international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney said on Monday.
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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."
-
A Yazidi Woman Shares Her Story Of Terror At The Hands Of The Islamic State
On Aug. 15, 2014, Islamic State fighters who had surrounded her small Iraqi town for days ordered Nadia Murad and other Yazidis to walk to the local school, where men were to head upstairs, women downstairs. A sight along the way terrified the 20-year-old even more: backhoes at work. She'd seen videos of Islamic State fighters filling mass graves. ...
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Iraqi Forces Free Group Of Yazidi Women From ISIS: Ministry
Iraqi security forces freed a group of Yazidi women held captive by ISIS in a covert operation behind the group's lines, a defence ministry statement said on Wednesday.It did not say how many women were freed, when or where.
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Yazidi Women, Girls Seek Healing In Germany After ISIS 'Hell'
One eight-year-old was repeatedly sold and raped, while another girl set herself on fire to make herself less attractive to her terrorist captors.
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Some Islamic State's Former Sex Slaves Were Forced To Have 'Virginity Tests' After Escaping
Some women enslaved by the Islamic State were forced to undergo grim procedures even after they escaped the jihadists' clutches.
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Mass Grave of 'Yazidi Women Executed By ISIS' Found in Iraq
A mass grave believed to hold the remains of dozens of Yazidi women executed by the Islamic State group was found Saturday in northern Iraq, officials said.
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'I Want a Blue-Eyed Yazidi': Teen Describes Islamic State Slave Market
Kidnapped, beaten, sold and raped: the Islamic State group is running an international market in Iraq where Christian and Yazidi women are sold as sexual slaves, a teenager who escaped told AFP Tuesday.
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Female Yazidi Captives Forced to Give Blood to Wounded Islamist Fighters: Survivor
Female Yazidi captives are being forced to donate blood to wounded Islamic State (IS) fighters, according to a pregnant teenager who escaped after being seized and held captive by IS militants.
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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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John Kerry Slams 'Abhorrent' Yazidi Slavery by Islamic State Militants
US Secretary of State John Kerry slammed the Islamic State group for "abhorrent" abuses on Tuesday after the jihadists boasted of selling captured women and girls as slaves.
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Islamic State Jihadists Boast of Enslaving Yazidis
The Islamic State jihadist group says that it has given Yazidi women and children captured in northern Iraq to its fighters as spoils of war, boasting it had revived slavery.
