Jihadist militia from the
al-Qaeda affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS)
have kidnapped hundreds of women and young girls from Iraq's
Yazidi religious minority, Iraq said Wednesday.
The Iraqi ministry for women's affairs called on the
international community to help save the women, who Baghdad said
were captured after ISIS forces overran the north-western town
of Sinjar.
"We have received information confirming that ISIS has
locked a certain number of women and girls in a large house at
Sinjar. Other women and their children have been moved to Tel
Afar airport after all their men were killed," the ministry
said.
"ISIS militia killed 500 men solely because they were
Yazidis," an Iraqi MP from the Yazidi community, Vian Dakhil,
told the Iraqi parliament Tuesday.
"They took 500 women prisoner, and are holding them in an
area near (the northwestern city of) Tel Afar".
Yazidis follow an ancient faith that jihadists condemn as
devil worship.
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