November 11, 2026
When ISIS overran Sinjar in August 2014, thousands of Yazidi women and girls were abducted and enslaved.
In Yazidi Women: Slaves of the Caliphate, BBC Arabic follows a young woman as she negotiates, at great risk, to free Yazidi women still held captive by ISIS fighters in northern Iraq, and hears from survivors about what they went through.
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