[Rudaw] A Yazidi man, previously held by the Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS), was reunited with his family on Sunday after being found in Syria - thanks to successful efforts by the Kurdistan Region Presidency.
Rawand N.H. is one of the thousands of Yazidis who were kidnapped by ISIS in their hometown of Shingal in northern Iraq more than a decade ago. He was freed in Syria nearly two weeks ago and was reunited with family in Duhok province on Sunday.
"I have never felt this much joy in my life," he told Rudaw on Sunday, expressing his happiness at being reunited with his family.
He added that he spent most of his 11 years in Syria’s Raqqa and the vicinity of the city.
Rawad is unable to speak in his mother tongue, Kurdish, anymore. He spoke in Arabic in Duhok.
His uncle, Haji Hame, thanked Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani for reuniting Rawand with his family.
"We had registered all eight members of the family as deaders. Thankfully, this one emerged alive," he told Rudaw after receiving his nephew in Duhok’s Batifa.
The uncle also noted that the Office of Rescuing Abducted Yazidis, which is affiliated with the Kurdistan Region Presidency, informed him a month ago that they had found his nephew.
"He will live with me because he has no one else left alive," said Rawand’s uncle.
Hame also said that 77 members of Rawand’s extended family were kidnapped by ISIS when the group attacked Shingal in 2014, adding that 39 remain unaccounted for.
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