UN: Islamic State holds 3,500 slaves in Iraq, mostly Yazidi women and children

Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 08:02 in Psychology & Sociology

Andrew V. PestanoNEW YORK, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- The UN estimates the Islamic State has about 3,500 people held as slaves in Iraq who are mostly women and children from the Yazidi Kurdish religious group.

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