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Iraq

Mother, daughter freed from ISIS reunite with family in Shingal

2025-11-30

[Rudaw] A Yazidi mother and her 11-year-old daughter were reunited with their family in Shingal (Sinjar), northern Iraq on Saturday after spending more than 11 years held captive by 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....
(ISIS) bully boys.

"I stayed in Syria for three years and then we went to ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
. I have been in Turkey for nine years," said Soad Khalaf. "About 10 days ago, I spoke with my family and thank God they helped me out and I was rescued."

In its assault on Shingal in 2014, ISIS faceless myrmidons kidnapped 6,417 Yazidi women and kiddies, many of whom were subjected to sexual slavery and forced labor. Over 3,500 of them have been rescued so far, with approximately 2,500 yet to be located.

Khalaf said that she and her child were relocated several times in Syria before they were taken to Turkey where she was kept for nine years, never allowed to leave the house. Her daughter does not speak any Kurdish because their captors forced them to speak Arabic only.

They were warmly welcomed home by their family.

"I cannot describe how I feel. I’m very happy and it feels like a dream," said Abdullah Shrem, Khalaf’s husband.

Khalaf’s mother was filled with joy at being reunited with her daughter and granddaughter, but it was tempered by the fact that other members of their family are still missing.

"I still have another daughter missing, and four of her cousins are still missing. Her aunt is still missing. We still have five missing women out there," she said.

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

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