INA - BAGHDAD

Commander-in-Chief of the Forces, Major General Yehia Rasool, announced on Monday the return of two kidnapped Yazidi women from the Syrian side.

"According to the directives of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, the security services and intelligence departments continue to search for the kidnapped Yazidis intensively," said Major General Rasool in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency - INA.

He explained, "By collecting information and continuously following up on this important file, the heroes of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service - after obtaining the necessary approvals from the Joint Operations Command and coordinating with the Border Forces Command - were able to bring back two Yazidi women kidnapped by the evil Daesh terrorist gangs during their rape of the lands of Nineveh Governorate, as they were returned from the Syrian side and handed over to their families, one of them a girl about 10 years old."

"The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces is personally following up on the file of returning the kidnapped Yazidi women and has stressed in more than one security meeting and occasion, the need to return all the kidnapped women to their families and to make every effort and harness the capabilities for this purpose," he included.