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Women Who Escaped ISIS Slavery Create Trained Battalion to Fight Back, Rescue Others

Women Who Escaped ISIS Slavery Create Trained Battalion to Fight Back, Rescue Others
The 'Force of the Sun Ladies' are not going to hide while their fellow Yazidi women are enslaved – that's why they're training for a rescue mission.

After two years of their people being hunted and displaced by the black-clad soldiers of ISIS, these women will not tolerate it any long.

Considered devil-worshippers by Islamic State militants, the Yazidi people's faith combine Christian, Zoroastrian, and Islamic beliefs. In 2014, over 200,000 Yazidi people were attacked by the jihadi organization and fled to refugee camps in Kurdistan.

Over 5,000 of the women and children were enslaved – but not for long.

The 600 escaped Sun Ladies – plus another 1,400 Yazidi men – plan on using their knowledge of the terrorist base to team up with Kurdish Peshmerga forces and seek revenge, as well as protect the survival of their people and free the remaining enslaved women.

"Whenever a war wages, our women end up as the victims," Captain Khatoon Khider, a member of the Sun Ladies told Fox News. "Now we are defending ourselves from the evil. We are defending all the minorities in the region. We will do whatever is asked of us."

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