3,500 People Held by ISIS as Slaves in Iraq: United Nations

3,500 People Held by ISIS as Slaves in Iraq: United Nations
Wed Jan 20, 2016 17:01:26

ISIS terrorists currently detaining about 3,500 people as slaves mostly Yazidi women and children in Iraq, the United Nations announced on Tuesday.

The United Nations said in a report released in Geneva today, “The ISIS organization is currently detaining about 3,500 people as slaves, most of them are women and children.”

The report added, “The majority of people who have been held by the ISIS organization are women and children who come mainly from the Yazidi community, in addition to other racial and ethnic minorities.”

Noteworthy, ISIS terrorists have imposed their control over the city of Mosul in Nineveh province (405 km north of Baghdad) in the tenth of June 2014, while extended their activities to several provinces and regions of Iraq, IraqiNews reported.

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