article_snippet.sent: Hundreds of Yazidi girls and women, some as young as eight, were kidnapped by ISIS last year, and have since been held as sex slaves in the Islamic State .
article_snippet.sent: Horrifying tale: This 15-year-old Yazidi girl is one of hundreds of former ISIS sex slaves who have managed to escape the Islamic State and now face the difficult task of re-entering the strict religious community .
article_snippet.sent: The young girls, some barely teenagers, are some of around 40,000 people kidnapped at gunpoint when Islamic State fighters attacked Yazidi villages last summer.
article_snippet.sent: Some Yazidi girls are secretly undergoing abortions, banned in Kurdistan even in cases of rape, and seeking hymen surgery to 'reverse the loss of virginity'.
article_snippet.sent: A recent study by Human Rights Watch has found that ISIS fighters have been kidnapping women and children as young as eight, forcing Some Yazidi girls to marry and convert to Islam and raping Some Yazidi girls repeatedly.
article_snippet.sent: Around 40,000 people were kidnapped at gunpoint when Islamic State fighters attacked Yazidi villages last summer.
article_snippet.sent: Yazidi women and girls have been separated from Yazidi women and girls families, forced to convert to Islam and repeatedly raped by ISIS fighters, A recent study by Human Rights watch says.
article_snippet.sent: Yazidi women and girls actions amount to war crimes.
article_snippet.sent: Yazidi children as young as eight have been abducted from Yazidi children as young as eight have been abducted from their homes in northern Iraq homes in northern Iraq, raped by ISIS fighters and forced into marriage.
article_snippet.sent: A 31-year-old Yazidi woman named Rashida told the charity A 31-year-old Yazidi woman named Rashida was told by A 31-year-old Yazidi woman named Rashida brother to commit suicide if A 31-year-old Yazidi woman named Rashida was unable to escape ISIS fightersA 31-year-old Yazidi woman named Rashida.
article_snippet.sent: These women were part of a group of 216 Yazidis who were recently released by ISIS after being captured last year .
article_snippet.sent: Another woman, identified as Dilara, said Another woman, identified as Dilara was taken to a wedding hall in Syria where ISIS fighters told a group of 216 Yazidis who were recently released by ISIS after being captured last year to forget ISIS fighters relatives and prepare to marry ISIS fighters and bear ISIS fighters children.
article_snippet.sent: This comes just weeks 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: 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: Yazidi activists say many remain in the hands of Islamic State, which has often subjected women to rape or sexual slavery.
highlights_snippet.sent: Hundreds of Yazidi girls and women held as sex slaves in Islamic State .
  