Yazidi Women Are Still Being Sold By ISIS, Ten Years On From Genocide

The UN says that at least 3,000 women and children enslaved by the IS fighters are still being sold, raped, killed and forced into marriages. (Credit: Ismael ADNAN/AFP)

This year marks ten years since Islamic State (IS) fighters killed, raped and enslaved thousands of the Yazidi population, an ancient religious minority that had lived in parts of Iraq and Syria for nearly 6,000 years.

After declaring the caliphate in August 2014, the Islamic State for Iraq and Syria (ISIS) launched a genocidal campaign against the Yazidis as it sieged parts of Iraq and Syria.