Yazidi woman kidnapped by ISIS ten years ago, rescued, reunited with family by Iraqi intelligence
The agents of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service carried out an operation in Syria.
Rescue of Yazidi women: A Yazidi woman kidnapped by the extremist Islamic State (ISIS) group a decade ago has been rescued by members of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS). This information was shared by INIS on Saturday.
The Iraqi National Intelligence Service received intelligence reports about the woman and based on them, the Iraqi intelligence agents carried out an operation in Syria and were able to reach Kufan Eido Khorto, a Yazidi woman who was kidnapped by ISIS militants in 2014 when they took control of the town of Sinjar, almost 120 km west of Nineveh’s provincial capital Mosul, an INIS statement said on Saturday.
Kufan Eido Khorto was returned to Iraq and handed over to her family by Iraqi intelligence, as quoted in a report by Xinhua news agency.
The Yazidis are an Iraqi ethnic and religious minority.
In 2014, extremist IS militants kidnapped and enslaved hundreds of Yazidi women and children.
ISIS was founded in 2004 by Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and fought alongside al-Qaeda during the Iraqi insurgency. The group rose to global prominence in 2014 when its militants successfully captured large areas in northwestern Iraq and eastern Syria, taking advantage of the ongoing Syrian civil war.
ISIS, designated a terrorist organization by the United Nations and others, was known for massive human rights violations. During her rule in northern Iraq, the country launched a genocide against the Yazidis and persecuted Christians and Shia Muslims.
(With IANS inputs)