‘Still going through hell’: the search for Yazidi women seven years on

As two women are rescued in Syria after being kidnapped by Isis years earlier, Yazidis renew calls for international help to find the thousands still unaccounted for

For seven years, their families waited and hoped for news. In July, they finally received it. Two young women, kidnapped by Islamic State as teenagers, had been found alive in Syria.

Salma*, now 25, was located in Deir el-Zour province, in the east of the country. She had suffered all kinds of injustice", said the Yazidi House in the Al-Jazira region, an organisation that assisted with the rescue of both women.