More DW Blogs DW.COM

Women Talk Online

A forum for women to talk to women

Search Results for Tag: Sinjar

After surviving IS, Yazidi women ask to go home

Among thousands fleeing the crumbling dream of an Islamic State group “caliphate” in eastern Syria are alleged jihadists but also survivors of some of their worst atrocities.

Date

04.02.2019 | 14:47

Share

Feedback

Comments deactivated

Women in the News

© DW/S. Cousins

© DW/S. Cousins

Violence and destruction are the only things the Yazidis ever experienced in ISIS captivity. Now more stories have been revealed and some tell of unbelievable brutalities toward women. But now Yazidi women decide to take action against ISIS and form Sun Brigade, an all-women unit of the Peshmerga, the Kurdish armed Forces. Read more here, and other news about women that made it to the headlines.

Date

15.10.2015 | 23:01

Share

Feedback

Comments deactivated