“We have ramped up our efforts to rescue all Yezidi hostages from ISIS. Recently, we managed to free another eight Yezidi in coordination with Shingal security forces,”Mahmood Nuri, head of the Kurdistan Regional Government Office of Refugee Affairs, told Rudaw on Monday.
“Until now, an estimated 905 Kurdish Yezidi have been freed from ISIS captivity in Iraq and Syria,” he added.
Qasim Simo, of the Shingal security office, also told Rudaw on Monday: “The condition of the rescued Yezidis, consisting of four children and four women, is not critical and they are originally from the village of Kochon near Shingal.”
Two weeks ago, 31 Yezidi prisoners escaped the captivity of ISIS in Tal Afar, a city in northern Mosul province, according to a Peshmerga official.
On April 8, more than 200 Yezidis were released after more than eight months in the hands of ISIS, a Kurdish security official said.
ISIS overran the Yezidi ancestral land in Shingal in August, unleashing a wave of atrocities against the religious minority that included looting, mass executions, organized rape and slavery.
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