ISIS members, Yazidi slaves emerge from final pocket of resistance in Syria
The men, their faces covered with dust, were divided into three groups - Syrians, Iraqis and other nationalities. Their names were taken and they were fingerprinted outside the eastern village of Baghouz, where the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, backed by U.S. troops, have been battling the militants since September.
Many Yazidis, followers of a minority faith, are still missing five years after IS militants stormed Yazidi towns and villages in Iraq's Sinjar region and abducted women and children. Women were forced into sexual slavery and boys were taken to be indoctrinated in jihadi ideology. Thousands of people have trickled out of Baghouz in the last few days, a wave of evacuations that has brought the IS a step closer to defeat at the hands of the SDF. That would be a milestone in the devastating four-year campaign to defeat the group's so-called “caliphate” that once covered a vast territory straddling both Syria and Iraq. The fight against IS has taken place amid Syria's nearly 8-year-old civil war.
Last month, Iraq's President Barham Saleh said during a visit to Paris that all IS militants who committed crimes against Iraq will be put on trial, including 13 suspected French militants who have been transferred to Iraq from Syria.
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