Escaping ISIS: Lawyer finds way to rescue women, children held captive by jihadists

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ChristianToday:

Monica Cantilero

18 July 2015

 

A Yazidi lawyer who used to manage small-town issues has risen to the occasion to do what has to be done: Rescue women and children held captive by the Islamic State despite the threat of a brutal death in the hands of the jihadists.

 

Before his village in northern Iraq was overran by the ISIS, former lawyer Khalil al-Dakhi dealt with marriage, divorce, and death, the Gospel Herald wrote.

 

As many as 3,000 women and children in al-Dakhi's community have been enslaved by ISIS while hundreds of Yazidi men have been massacred.

 

Many of the women taken were forced to marry ISIS fighters. Others were raped while some suffered brutal executions like stoning.

 

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