Special to WorldTribune.com Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) forces female captives to use contraception to ensure they do not become pregnant and can be passed among jihadists as sex slaves. The New York Times, which interviewed more than three dozen Yazidi women who escaped from the terror organization, cited a gynecologist who examined […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) has forced some 3,500 Iraqis into slavery, most of them minority Yazidi women and children, according to a UN report. Most of the Yazidis were forced into sexual slavery, the report, released on Jan. 19, said. The report said some 800 to 900 children were […]
Special to WorldTribune.com A grave holding the remains of dozens of Yazidi women deemed by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) too old to be kept as sex slaves was discovered in the Iraqi town of Sinjar on Nov. 14. Iraqi officials said they found the bodies of 78 women, all aged between 40 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) has circulated a “price list” for child slaves to its fighters in Syria and Iraq, according to a United Nations official. Zainab Bangura, the UN’s Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sexual Violence in Conflict, told Bloomberg that girls are “peddled like barrels of petrol.” […]
By John J. Metzler VIENNA, Austria–The countdown started in Sarajevo in June 1914, the conflagration followed in August. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serb nationalist set in motion a series of events in which the great European powers marched, with near lockstep, into a war which would devour seventeen million people, […]