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A Yazidi woman has been rescued by Iraqi authorities ten years after IS militants took her into captivity from the Iraqi city of Sinjar during the group’s brutal invasion in 2014. According to Kurdish broadcaster Rudaw, Yazidi rescue office head Hussain Qaidi, who is also associated with the Kurdistan Region Presidency, confirmed that Yazidi woman Tawaf Dawoud Chato was rescued on Tuesday. Qaidi told Rudaw that Chato “arrived in Iraq from Western Kurdistan” and added that Iraqi security forces will keep her in custody until she returns to Sinjar, northern Iraq. The New Arab’s Arabic-language s…

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