Six young Yazidis rescued: Kurdish official
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Six Yazidis, who were abducted by the Islamic State (ISIS), have been rescued, according to the head of the office responsible for the rescue of thousands of people who went missing when the radical group controlled Shingal in 2014.
Hussein Qaidi, head of the Rescuing Abducted Yazidis office, which is affiliated to the Kurdistan Region Presidency, said in a statement late Tuesday that six Yazidis, aged between 15-24 have been rescued without elaborating when and how they were rescued.
ISIS overran the Yazidi heartland of Shingal during their conquest of parts of Iraq and Syria in summer of 2014, committing genocide against the ethnoreligious group. More than 6,000 Yazidis were abducted and thousands remain missing with little done to bring solace to the rescued.
The majority of captives are held in the notorious al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava), according to data obtained by Rudaw English from Khayri Bozani, former head of the Yazidi affairs at the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) endowment ministry.
Kurdish security forces in Rojava have in recent months announced the rescue of a number of Yazidis from al-Hol camp.
Hussein Qaidi, head of the Rescuing Abducted Yazidis office, which is affiliated to the Kurdistan Region Presidency, said in a statement late Tuesday that six Yazidis, aged between 15-24 have been rescued without elaborating when and how they were rescued.
ISIS overran the Yazidi heartland of Shingal during their conquest of parts of Iraq and Syria in summer of 2014, committing genocide against the ethnoreligious group. More than 6,000 Yazidis were abducted and thousands remain missing with little done to bring solace to the rescued.
The majority of captives are held in the notorious al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava), according to data obtained by Rudaw English from Khayri Bozani, former head of the Yazidi affairs at the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) endowment ministry.
Kurdish security forces in Rojava have in recent months announced the rescue of a number of Yazidis from al-Hol camp.