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Yazidi Woman Freed After 10 Years in ISIS Captivity

Rescued by Kurdish fighters in Syria, the woman recounts a decade of abuse and forced marriages under ISIS.

  • U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in Syria have liberated a Yazidi woman and her children from the al-Hol camp, where she was held captive by ISIS for a decade.
  • The woman, originally from Hardan village in Iraq's Yazidi heartland of Sinjar, was abducted by ISIS during the 2014 massacres.
  • She was raped, forced to marry extremists, and sold like a sheep, enduring severe abuse before her liberation.
  • The operation, part of the ongoing security effort 'Operation Humanity and Security 3', has also resulted in the detention of several suspected ISIS operatives.
  • Al-Hol camp, once home to 73,000 people, houses mostly wives and children of Islamic State fighters, including citizens of about 60 other nationalities.
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