{"id":97859,"date":"2026-05-04T21:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/97859\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T21:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:27:09","slug":"yazidi-girl-freed-from-isis-in-iraqs-sinjar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/97859\/","title":{"rendered":"Yazidi girl freed from ISIS in Iraq\u2019s Sinjar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-05-04T11:47:28+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shafaq News- Erbil<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 19-year-old Yazidi girl has been freed from ISIS<br \/>\ncaptivity, Hussein Qaidi, the Office of Kidnapped Yazidis Director, told Shafaq<br \/>\non Monday, without providing further details about the operation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The girl, originally from Qani village in Sinjar district,<br \/>\nwas abducted in 2014 during ISIS\u2019s assault on the area. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cEfforts by the office are ongoing, with direct support from<br \/>\nKurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani, to rescue the remaining abductees<br \/>\nand missing persons,\u201d Qaidi said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The number of <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Kurdistan\/On-Women-s-Day-Kurdistan-continues-Yazidi-rescue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rescued<\/a> Yazidis has now reached 3,595, most of<br \/>\nwhom are women and children. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking religious minority mainly<br \/>\nconcentrated in Iraq\u2019s Nineveh province \u2014particularly in Sinjar, Shekhan,<br \/>\nBashiqa, and Bahzani\u2014 were subjected in August 2014 to a genocidal campaign by<br \/>\nISIS in Sinjar, which killed thousands of Yazidi men and abducted thousands<br \/>\nmore, mostly women and children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-04T11:47:28+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Erbil A 19-year-old Yazidi girl has been freed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[152,1111,94,491,34238,34237,21074],"class_list":{"0":"post-97859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-breaking","9":"tag-erbil","10":"tag-iraq","11":"tag-isis","12":"tag-kidnapped-grils","13":"tag-yazidi-girl-freed-from-isis-in-iraqs-sinjar","14":"tag-yazidis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116518429884379940","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}