Yazidi

The Islamic State (IS) terrorists made her a sex slave. She was not alone……there were hundreds of thousands of women who were kidnapped by the terrorists. Members of the terror outfit, reportedly, are still using them as sex slaves in Iraq and Syria.

Kurdish forces launched an offensive on Nov. 12 to retake the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar from ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) militants who overran it more than a year ago, killing and enslaving thousands of its Yazidi residents and triggering U.S.-led air strikes.

The U.S.-led coalition conducted 12 air strikes against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants in Syria on Dec. 22 and 10 strikes Iraq, the U.S. military said in a statement.
   

Jihadists carried out a "massacre" in the northern Iraqi village of Kocho, killing dozens of people, most of them members of the Yazidi religious minority, officials said on Aug 16.

Jihadists carried out a "massacre" in the northern Iraqi village of Kocho, killing dozens of people, most of them members of the Yazidi religious minority, officials said on Aug 16.

A New York Times reporter and a photographer have been brought to Turkey after being injured when a helicopter carrying aid to displaced members of the Yazidi community crashed in Iraq, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said via Twitter on Aug. 13.