Published on Aug 31, 2014
PROVIDED BY CNNNEXT.COM
The UK-based monitoring group has confirmed that at least 27 Izadi women have been sold for about 1-thousand dollars each to ISIL militants in Syria.
The United Nations has also warned of increasing kidnappings by armed groups in Iraq, saying some of the victims have been forced to convert to Islam so that the militants can marry them.
Tens of thousands of Izadi Kurds have fled their homes after ISIL extremists attacked their villages in northern Iraq.
The Kurdish Peshmerga forces backed by Iraqi troops are fighting the terrorist group in the country’s northern region.
