A 21-year-old woman kidnapped by Islamic State militants in Iraq more than a decade ago has been freed from Gaza in an operation led by the US.
The operation also involved Israel, Jordan and Iraq, according to officials and reported by The Guardian.
The woman is a member of the Yazidi religious minority, which saw more than 5,000 members killed and thousands more kidnapped in a 2014 campaign that the UN has said constituted genocide.
As the Middle East is landlocked, with borders often experiencing high volumes of movement. The rescue of Fawzia Sido brings into focus; the evils of modern slavery, human trafficking and the need for a responsive international community.
This case also raises some painful truths; 40,000 foreign fighters were part of the IS plans to eradicate Yazidis, Christians and Muslims from Iraq. Only a few countries have since taken responsibility for the War Crimes of their citizens.
In September, a 52-year-old woman in Sweden was charged over her association with ISIS, genocide, crimes against humanity and serious war crimes against Yazidi women and children in Syria, in the first such trial in the Scandinavian country.
