SHARYA, Iraq: After paying nearly $100,000 in ransoms to free 10 family members, Khaled Taalou, a member of Iraq's Yazidi minority, is still working to free other missing relatives kidnapped by Islamic State group fighters.
Despite his efforts, five more relatives, along with thousands of other Yazidis, remain missing after being abducted by the jihadists.'We are still looking. We do not lose hope,' the 49-year-old said.In August 2014, IS swept over Mount Sinjar, the Kurdish-speaking minority's historic home in northern Iraq. They massacred thousands of Yazidi men, enlisted children, and seized thousands of women to be sold as jihadists' 'wives' or reduced to sexual slavery.
'Bahar Elias was separated from her husband Jassem and their son Ahmed, who was barely 19 when the family was kidnapped when IS seized Sinjar.Relatives paid intermediaries $22,000 to secure the release of Bahar and her three younger sisters.Now living in a camp for displaced people near Sharya, the 40-year-old said she has her 'eyes glued to the road' in hopes that her husband and son will return.
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