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ISIS on Wednesday released 216 Yazidi captives in Iraq's Kirkuk province, said an official with Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdistan Regional Government.

ISIS on Wednesday released 216 Yazidi captives in Iraq's Kirkuk province, said an official with Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdistan Regional Government.

ISIS on Wednesday released 216 Yazidi captives in Iraq's Kirkuk province, said an official with Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdistan Regional Government.

This article is about how a Yazidi girl escaped the ISIL territory. It also states how many women who are captured by the group are being treated and how they are forced into marriage and conversion.

First hand Account of Yazidi women who escaped from ISIL captiviy. These women went through enough, to give one an insight into the brutality of ISIL.

United Nations human rights investigators recently leveled accusations of genocide and war crimes at the Islamic State, citing evidence that the extremist group's fighters had sought to wipe out the Yazidi minority in Iraq.

The Yazidi religious minority community in Iraq says 3,500 of its women and girls are still being held by the so-called Islamic State (IS), many being used as sex slaves. A few have managed to escape and here tell their harrowing stories. One day in August, Hannan woke to find her family frantically packing.

The use of U.S. military force against ISIS is a significant escalation whose long-term significance is elusive. The announced justification for the military strikes combined a humanitarian rationale (the exigent need of the Yazidis stranded on their bleak mountain) with the threat that ISIS posed to American citizens in the Kurdish capital of Erbil.