Iraq Crisis: Yazidi Women ‘Forced to Marry’ Islamic State Fighters
Yazidi women captured by Islamic State (IS) militants are being forced to marry their captors, it has been revealed today.
The jihadist group have kidnapped more than 1,500 women and girls in Sinjar, northern Iraq, after taking over the region and forcing the people of the Yazidi sect to flee to the nearby mountains.
Witnesses in the town of Sinjar say Islamic State fighters separated the younger women from the rest of the persecuted Sinjar population and took them away in buses and trucks.
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