ISIS jihadists snatch hundreds of Yazidi women, Iraq says

(ANSA) - Baghdad, August 6 - 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.