One photo she managed to send to the family shows the little girl standing in front of an ISIL flag. The fighters are assassinating smugglers who rescue the captives, just as funds to buy the women out of slavery are drying up. The thousands of Yazidi women and children were taken prisoner in August 2014, when ISIL fighters overran their villages in northern Iraq with the aim to eliminate the Kurdish-speaking minority because of its ancient faith. While the Islamic State group is losing territory in its self-styled caliphate, it is tightening its grip on the estimated 3,000 women and girls held as sex slaves. She said the doctor, who was the ISIL head of the town hospital, also abused her.

Source: National Post July 06, 2016 03:59 UTC