US-backed Kurdish fighters in Syria have liberated a Yazidi woman who had been held for a decade by Islamic State (IS), where she was raped and forced to marry extremists.
The statement said the woman was abducted by IS fighters during the 2014 massacres committed by the extremists during which they killed thousands of men and took many women and teenage girls who were held as sex slaves.
The woman said in a video released by the YPJ that she was staying with a family before being taken to the camp and was told not to reveal her identity or say that she is Yazidi.
She added that at one point she was with six other women in the house of an older man called Abu Jaafar who used to beat her up if she rejected him.
Those of non-Syrian or Iraqi nationalities live in a part of the camp known as the Annex, considered the home of the most diehard IS supporters.
Over the past years several security operations have been carried out during which women captured as slaves were released and extremists detained.
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