Yazidis

The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) of northern Iraq pays money to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants in order to save Yazidi women who were kept as slaves, KRG General Directorate of Yazidi Affairs Minister Hadi Doubani has told daily Hürriyet. 

A Chechen ISIL militant 'cleaned' 19-year-old Dalia with petrol before raping her... Daily Hürriyet interviews ISIL's Yazidi sex slaves in three refugee camps in northern Iraq, publishing their harrowing accounts. They were kidnapped, sold as sex slaves and raped for months at the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants.

Milen Penev, who heads the Border Directorate at Bulgaria's Interior Ministry, has been dismissed, media reports suggest.

This was first announced by public broadcaster BNR, though the Ministry of Interior is yet to confirm.

Jihadist fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) are holding hostage at least 50 civilians seized in a raid on a village in central Syria, a monitor said.
      
They were kidnapped from the village of Mabujeh in Hama province on March 31, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
      

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadists may have committed genocide in trying to wipe out the Yazidi minority in Iraq, a UN report said March 19.
      
ISIL "may have committed all three of the most serious international crimes -- namely war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide," the United Nations human rights office said in a statement.
      

Kurdish forces have found the remains of about 25 members of the Yazidi minority killed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in a mass grave in northwest Iraq, officials said Feb. 2.
      

Iraqi Deputy President Osama al-Nujaifi has claimed that outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants have attacked villages between Mosul's Sinjar and Rabia regions, killing five people and injuring several others.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group released more than 200 mostly elderly members of northern Iraq's Yazidi minority Jan. 17 who had been held for months, officials and activists said.
      

There has been no news from the 136 Turkmen hostages who were kidnapped by jihadists in Tal Afar in Iraq more than three months ago.

Women and girls from Iraq's Yazidi minority endured horrors at the hands of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants after they were taken as slaves last summer, leaving them deeply traumatized, an international watchdog group said in a report issued on Dec. 23.