How a kidnapped Yazidi girl escaped the ISIS sex trade
As a 19-year-old girl in northern Iraq, Farida Khalaf had as normal a life as one could: She lived with her parents and four brothers in a small village called Kocho. She tended the family’s garden....
View ArticleYazidi sets herself on fire to avoid ISIS sex slavery
She was finally safe in a refugee camp in Iraq, but in her head, she still heard the demons — ISIS militants coming to rape and torture her yet again. So the Yazidi girl named Yasmin, only 17 at the...
View ArticleYazidi sex slaves who escaped ISIS win human rights prize
BRUSSELS — Two Yazidi women who escaped sexual enslavement by the Islamic State group and went on to become advocates for others have won the European Union’s Sakharov Prize for human rights. Guy...
View ArticleI spent two years in hell as an ISIS sex slave
DOHUK, Iraq — A dusty Land Cruiser bounces down a pale, tent-lined lane at the back of a remote displacement camp, stopping near a small circle of women and children. A fragile young woman with a...
View ArticleYazidis freed by ISIS fear for loved ones still in captivity
The Yazidi family mourned her death, assuming she had been killed by Islamic State militants or exposure to the blistering summer sun in northwest Iraq, but 15-year-old Suad Shaker Qassem was still...
View ArticleISIS may have committed genocide against Iraqi minority: UN report
Islamic State jihadists may have committed genocide against the minority Yazidi community in Iraq – as well as crimes against humanity and war crimes, a United Nations report said Thursday. The terror...
View ArticleISIS releases over 200 captive Iraqi Yazidis
BAGHDAD — The Islamic State group released more than 200 Yazidis on Wednesday after holding them for eight months, the latest mass release of captives by the extremists targeted by U.S.-led airstrikes...
View ArticleISIS impregnates 9-year-old girl
A 9-year-old girl is pregnant after being raped by ISIS savages in Iraq, a report said. “The abuse she has suffered left her mentally and physically traumatized,” said Yousif Daoud, a Canadian-based...
View ArticleHoneymoon in hell: ISIS creates its own Niagara Falls
BEIRUT — The honeymoon was a brief moment for love, away from the front lines of Syria’s war. In the capital of the Islamic State group’s self-proclaimed “caliphate,” Syrian fighter Abu Bilal al-Homsi...
View ArticleISIS gave away sex slaves as prizes in Quran contest
The terrorist army may have reached a new low with a twisted new contest in which female slaves captured in war are given away as "prizes" to fighters who show the have mastered the Koran.
View ArticleSex slaves filmed fleeing ISIS
Thirty-four people, mostly women and children, who escaped from the clutches of Islamic State thugs in Iraq are seen making their way to freedom in a new documentary. The UK’s Channel 4 captured the...
View ArticleThe heroes working to rescue ISIS’s core victims
‘I’ve been raped 30 times and it’s not even lunchtime,” cried one young Yazidi woman in a dangerous and desperate call. Chillingly, she begged the man on the line, someone embedded with the Kurdish...
View ArticleRepellent ISIS now has official rules on who can have sex with female slaves
Islamic State theologians have issued an extremely detailed ruling on when “owners” of women enslaved by the extremist group can have sex with them, in an apparent bid to curb what they called...
View ArticleNew hope for Yazidi women once held as sex slaves by ISIS
DOHUK, Iraq– It’s been less than two weeks since Perwin Ali Baku escaped the Islamic State group, after more than two years in captivity, bought and sold from fighter to fighter and carted from Iraq to...
View ArticleISIS sex slaves still don’t believe they are free
Back in 2014, the world watched in horror as the Yazidi people fled their Mount Sinjar homeland as the Islamic State took hold. Those who got out were the lucky ones. The terror group was attempting to...
View ArticleGirl who escaped ISIS says she was raped every day, tried to kill herself
A Yazidi girl who escaped after she was captured by ISIS jihadists said she was raped every day and attempted to kill herself. The woman, who only identified herself as “Ekhlas,” told The BBC she was...
View ArticleInside my life as an ISIS sex slave
Warning: Graphic content After being captured by ISIS, a group of young girls were forced to stand against a wall while men groped their chests. “If she had breasts, then she was OK to rape,” said a...
View ArticleThe moment ISIS sex slaves are reunited with Yazidi relatives
This was the emotional moment a group of Yazidi women and children were reunited with relatives after being freed from terror in Syria. Families wept as they hugged and kissed their loved ones, who...
View ArticleYazidi women who were victims of ISIS get new life in France
PARIS — France is taking in a new group of Yazidis including women victimized by the Islamic State group and their children. The families, a total of 130, were arriving Wednesday night in Toulouse,...
View Article‘Jabba the Jihadi’ played major role in enslaving Yazidi women
The morbidly obese ISIS militant who was captured by Iraqi forces last week is one of the main architects of the enslavement and sexual exploitation of Yazidi minority women, according to a French...
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