Activist: Tens of Izadi Children, Women Held in ISIL's Underground Jails in Syria

More than 2,000 Izadis, including children and women, are still kept in ISIL's jails in Syria, an Iraqi human rights activist claimed on Saturday.

News ID: 70500

Date: 02 June 2018 - 18:12

TEHRAN (Defapress)- The Arabic-language website of Sputnik quoted Hossein Ali al-Khansouri, a human rights activist on Iraqi Ezedi case as saying that ISIL has jailed over 2,000 civilians, including Izadi children and women, at border regions in Syria near Iraq, where ISIL came under attack by the Kurds.

He further told Sputnik that the ISIL has incarcerated Izadi children in underground jails in Souseh, Hafin, Sha'afeh and Baqouz regions in Deir Ezzur province and in Dashisheh region near Syria's border with Iraq.

He said the underground jails are in areas under attack by the Kurdish-majority Syrian Democractic Forces (SDF).

The Arabic Sputnik said that a sum of 300 Izadi boys and girls were captured by ISIL in Dashysheh only in August 2014.

Head of Ezedi affairs in Dohouk province said that a sum of 3,259 captives has thus far been freed from ISIL, including 2,076 girls and women.

On Monday, the Syrian Army forwarded more forces and military equipment, including several cannons, to its positions in Eastern Damascus, to launch a fresh round of large-scale attacks on ISIL that stormed the government forces' position in al-Mayadeen desert recently.

In the meantime, the army forces engaged in a tough battle with ISIL in Eastern Badiyeh (desert) between Western Deir Ezzur and Eastern Homs, killing or wounding a number of terrorists.

Also, the army aircraft pounded several times ISIL's positions South of Humeimeh region, imposing heavy casualties on the militants.

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