Ziri Khalaf and her children were reportedly kidnapped from the town of Hardan in Sinjar during ISIS’ genocidal campaign in 2014 against the Yazidi religious community in the Sinjar region. Two of Khalaf’s children have been rescued. Khalaf and two other children have yet to be found.
During its rule, ISIS kidnapped 6.417 Yazidis from Sinjar. Just over half have been rescued.
Khalil Khalaf alleges he saw his sister during coverage of the earthquake in northwest Syria. The region is controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...(HTS — formerly al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
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