Three Yazidi children who were kidnapped by the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS) in 2014 have been freed, the head of the Office for Yazidi Abductee Affairs said Sunday (December 17th).
"The three children had been kidnapped on August 3rd, 2014 by ISIS terrorists in Sinjar, and were taken to Syria where they were freed," Hussein Qaidi said in a statement.
They have been returned to Iraq and reunited with their families, he said.
"With those three children, the number of people who have been freed from the terrorist group rises to 3,226," he said, noting that "there are 3,191 people who are still detained by ISIS".
