Report: “Hundreds” of Yazidis Are Taking Up Arms Against ISIS

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Town Hall:

How many Yazidi men, women and children have been massacred by the Islamic State? The short answer is we don’t really know. But suffice it to say that the reports have been disturbing, while at the same time kidnapped Yazidi girls continue to be forced into slavery and unwanted compulsory marriages.

 

What’s happening to this peaceful group of people is appalling. But the Yazidis are fighting back. Kurdish forces in Syria have already trained "hundreds" of them, according to Reuters, all of whom are now reportedly returning to the battlefield in Iraq:

 

Kurdish militants have trained hundreds of Yazidi volunteers at several camps inside Syria to fight Islamic State forces in Iraq, a member of the armed Kurdish YPG and a Reuters photographer who visited a training camp said on Sunday.

 

The photographer spend Saturday at the training camp at the Serimli military base in Qamishli, northeastern Syria on the border with Iraqi Kurdistan, where he saw 55 Yazidis being trained to fight the Islamic State.