article_snippet.sent: Earlier this week, more than 200 Yazidi women, children and elderly were released near Kirkuk, northern Iraq after being taken by ISIS militants last June.
article_snippet.sent: Released: An elderly Yazidi man is being cared for by peshmerga troops while Female Yazidi cries as Female Yazidi is being offered water by a Kurdish soldier after a young girl cries as she is being offered water by a Kurdish soldier after their release near Kirkuk, northern Iraq release near Kirkuk, northern Iraq .
article_snippet.sent: Relief: A newly released Yazidi woman reacts upon A newly released Yazidi woman arrival in the village of Himera, southwest of Kirkuk, after A newly released Yazidi woman and hundreds of other Yazidis had been held captive since last summer .
article_snippet.sent: Around 40,000 people were kidnapped at gunpoint when Islamic State fighters attacked Yazidi villages last summer.
article_snippet.sent: The freed Yazidis were taken away by ambulances and buses to receive treatment and care .
article_snippet.sent: Yazidi families embrace after ISIS let Yazidi families go.
article_snippet.sent: This comes after the release of 216 Yazidi prisoners who had been held captive since last summer when ISIS militants attacked ISIS militants villages in the area around Sinjar in northwestern Iraq.
article_snippet.sent: 216 Yazidi prisoners who had been held captive since last summer when ISIS militants attacked their villages in the area around Sinjar in northwestern Iraq said that 216 Yazidi prisoners who had been held captive since last summer when ISIS militants attacked their villages in the area around Sinjar in northwestern Iraq had been led to believe 216 Yazidi prisoners who had been held captive since last summer when ISIS militants attacked their villages in the area around Sinjar in northwestern Iraq were being led to 216 Yazidi prisoners who had been held captive since last summer when ISIS militants attacked their villages in the area around Sinjar in northwestern Iraq execution, but instead, were piled onto a minibus that drove 216 Yazidi prisoners who had been held captive since last summer when ISIS militants attacked their villages in the area around Sinjar in northwestern Iraq to peshmerga positions.
article_snippet.sent: No reason was given for the release of the prisoners, which took place in Himera just southwest of Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad.
article_snippet.sent: Newly released members of the Yazidi minority, including one girl with an injured leg, wait for medical help after being set free by ISIS .
article_snippet.sent: Saved: An officer from the Kurdish forces carries an elderly Yazidi woman at the checkpoint in near Kirkuk .
article_snippet.sent: The freed Yazidis were taken away by ambulances and buses to receive treatment and care.
article_snippet.sent: It was not clear why the radical jihadists had decided to release the Yazidis, whom the radical jihadists consider devil-worshippers, but the radical jihadists previously freed 200 more the radical jihadists was holding under similarly mysterious circumstances.
article_snippet.sent: Iraqi Yazidis are seen at the entrance of a checkpoint in Kirkuk after Iraqi Yazidis release by the Islamic State militants near Kirkuk, northern Iraq .
article_snippet.sent: The 216 prisoners have been held captive in the Islamic State since last summer when militants attacked militants villages in the area around Sinjar in northwestern Iraq .
article_snippet.sent: Some of Iraqi Yazidis said Some of the Yazidis had been held in the Islamic State stronghold of Tel Afar most of the time, but in the days leading up to Some of the Yazidis release, Some of the Yazidis were moved from one town to another in Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate.
article_snippet.sent: Yazidi community leaders were there to receive Yazidi community leaders and an ambulance was on standby.
article_snippet.sent: Iraqi Yazidis are an ancient, predominantly Kurdish people who follow Iraqi Yazidis own religion derived from Islam, Christianity and Zoroastrianism.