The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Thursday that soldiers had rescued a Yazidi woman who had been kidnapped and enslaved by ISIS in Iraq before being trafficked to a Hamas terrorist in Gaza.
Two Iraqis accused of being members of the Islamic State group and keeping two young Yazidi girls as slaves.
German court rejected ISIS woman’s appeal of her 14-year sentence for allowing a 5-year-old girl she kept as a slave to die of thirst.
BERLIN — A German convert to Islam was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday on charges that, as a member of the extremist Islamic State group in Iraq, she allowed a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as a slave to die of thirst in the hot sun.
A German woman who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State group has been charged with membership in a terror group.
Nearly 3,000 Yazidis remain missing in the wake of the Islamic State invasion of Iraq, which oversaw a systemic effort to eliminate the minority group through genocide and forced assimilation.
Wellington — A New Zealander dubbed “the bumbling jihadi” can expect little help from his homeland after being captured in Syria by forces fighting the Islamic State group, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern warned Monday.
A German female Islamic State member is facing war crimes charges after she allowed a five-year-old slave she kept with her husband in Syria to die of thirst while chained outside under the blazing sun.
The Yazidi minority in Iraq finds itself in an uncomfortable position as the Kurds consider acting on their successful independence referendum, while Iraqi troops move against Kurdish positions to make such a bid for independence impossible.
Speaking in the gilded Treaty Room at the Department of State on Tuesday, Secretary Rex Tillerson re-confirmed the genocide designation against the Islamic State for its reign of terror in the Middle East and beyond as well as condemning serial human rights abusers Iran and China.
During a speech held in Duhok, Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani said the Kurdish people have “completely lost hope” in Iraq and must hold a referendum to decide their future.
An all-female fighting force from the Yazidi community known as the Sinjar Women’s Units (SWU) announced on Monday that it has joined the battle for Raqqa, the Islamic State’s capital in Syria. The Yazidi women made it clear they wished to avenge themselves for the hideous depredations inflicted on them by ISIS.
Andrew Walther, vice president of communications for the Knights of Columbus – the world’s largest Catholic fraternal order – joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow for a special edition of Breitbart News Daily live from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), to discuss his op-ed calling for Christian refugees from the Islamic State (ISIS) to be given priority consideration.
Two Yazidi women who escaped sexual enslavement under the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq received this year’s Andrei Sakharov Prize, Europe’s top human rights award.
The opposition Conservative party has forced the government of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to set concrete plans to help desperate Yazidis who have been the victims of Islamic State atrocities.
The European Council has bestowed the prestigious Vaclav Havel Human Rights Award on Nadia Murad, a survivor of Islamic State sex slavery and now a vocal activist for the rights of those oppressed by ISIS jihad.
