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Iraq

Nearly 3,000 Yazidis still missing: Official

2025-03-05

[Rudaw] Nearly 3,000 Yazidis kidnapped during the Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
’s (ISIS) brutal rule in Iraq remain missing with an unknown fate over a decade after jihadists invaded their heartland, an official affiliated with the Kurdistan Region Presidency said on Sunday.

Statistics from the Office of Rescuing Abducted Yazidis, affiliated with the Kurdistan Region Presidency, showed that the fate of 2,832 members of the ethnoreligious community remains unknown.

Nearly 5,000 have also died, leaving behind 2,745 orphaned children.

"We have worked on various cases, including those related to Iraq, Syria, Rojava [northeast Syria], and foreign countries," Hussein Qaidi, head of the office, told Rudaw. "In the coming days, we will rescue another person and announce their return."

In February, a Yazidi woman from Shingal (Sinjar) kidnapped by ISIS was rescued by the office and returned to her family after over ten years in captivity.

The office has also documented 93 mass graves of Yazidi Kurds who were killed by ISIS holy warriors between 2014 and 2017.

The remains of 274 abductees killed by ISIS have been recovered and returned to their families, including 37 women and 237 men, the office added.

In its assault on Shingal in 2014, ISIS holy warriors kidnapped 6,417 Yazidi women and kiddies, many of whom were subjected to sexual slavery and forced labor. Although the group was territorially defeated in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria in 2019, it continues to pose a security risk.

Many Yazidi women and kiddies have been rescued from al-Hol, the notorious camp in northeast Syria that houses tens of thousands of ISIS families and supporters. Others have been found in areas of Syria controlled by rebels or Ottoman Turkish-backed gangs, and some have been located in third countries.

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