Islamic State militants have lost the last of their strongholds, but for Yazidi survivor Nadia Murad, a new battle is just beginning. Three years after escaping militants in northern Iraq, Murad is unveiling a harrowing memoir, “The Last Girl,” about her ordeal as a sex slave. Murad was put on a bus with other young women, relatives and neighbors, and ISIS fighters began groping the women. The Islamic State leadership created a self-styled “religious” rationale to justify the sexual abuse of Yazidi women, and girls as young as 9. Some Yazidi women took their own lives.

Source: Washington Post November 23, 2017 08:00 UTC