Islamic State holds 400 Yezidi, Shi’ite women captive in Iraq’s Tel Afar

PanARMENIAN.Net – Islamic State (IS) militants are keeping nearly 400 women captives from the Kurdish Yezidi and Shi’ite Muslim communities in Tel Afar, said a member of the Iraqi parliament, according to BasNews.

MP Nahla Hababi, a representative of Iraqi Turkmens, told BasNews on Wednesday, November 2 that the woman captives are subjected to a serious threat as the Iraqi forces are pushing deeper into IS-held areas.

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