A Yazidi woman who was kidnapped aged 11 in Iraq by the Islamic State group and subsequently taken to Gaza has been rescued after more than a decade in captivity there, officials said. The 21-year-old, identified as Fawzia Amin Sido , was freed this week in an operation that involved Israel, the United States, and Iraq. The Yazidis are a religious minority who mostly live in Iraq and Syria. In 2014, Islamic State militants took over the Yazidi community in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq,

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