The Spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Major General Yahya Rasool, announced today, Monday, the return of two Yazidi women kidnapped by ISIS terrorists from the Syrian side.
Rasool said in a statement, “According to the directives of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, the security services and intelligence departments continue to search for the kidnapped Yazidis intensively.”
He explained that “by collecting information and continuous follow-up of this important file, the heroes of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service, after obtaining the necessary approvals from the Joint Operations Command and coordinating with the Border Forces Command, were able to return two Yazidi women kidnapped by the evil ISIS terrorist gangs during their rape of the lands of Nineveh Governorate, as they were returned from the Syrian side and handed over to their families, one of them a girl about 10 years old.”
He stressed that “the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces is personally following
up on the file of returning the kidnapped Yazidi women and stresses, in more than one security meeting and occasion, the need to return all the kidnapped women to their families and to make every effort and harness the capabilities for this purpose.”
Source: National Iraqi News Agency