This 30-Year-Old Woman Was Kept As Sex Slave By ISIS For Two Years, Eight Months, Six Days

It was just another hot and sunny August morning in the Sinjar district in 2014 following a holiday when friends and relatives gathered to exchange sweets and chatter to celebrate the end of the fasting season. Yet, an ominous threat hung in the air as some villagers got a whiff of men with pistols prowling in the area.

Laila Talo Khuder Alali was 26 when the ISIS arrived at her village, Kocho in Kurdistan, on August 3, 2014, in the midst of a campaign across northern Iraq, killing, displacing and enslaving thousands of Yazidis, whose religion has roots in Sufism and Zoroastrianism.

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