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Shafaq News- Erbil

A 19-year-old Yazidi girl has been freed from ISIS
captivity, Hussein Qaidi, the Office of Kidnapped Yazidis Director, told Shafaq
on Monday, without providing further details about the operation.

The girl, originally from Qani village in Sinjar district,
was abducted in 2014 during ISIS’s assault on the area.

“Efforts by the office are ongoing, with direct support from
Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani, to rescue the remaining abductees
and missing persons,” Qaidi said.

The number of rescued Yazidis has now reached 3,595, most of
whom are women and children.

Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking religious minority mainly
concentrated in Iraq’s Nineveh province —particularly in Sinjar, Shekhan,
Bashiqa, and Bahzani— were subjected in August 2014 to a genocidal campaign by
ISIS in Sinjar, which killed thousands of Yazidi men and abducted thousands
more, mostly women and children.