Nine Days in the Caliphate: Nine Days in the Caliphate: A Yazidi Woman’s Ordeal as an Islamic State Captive – The Call of Jihad: Families Struggle as German Kurds Join Islamists in Syria

Nine Days in the Caliphate

A Yazidi Woman’s Ordeal as an Islamic State Captive

When Islamic State fighters conquered the border region between Iraq and Syria, the Yazidi village of Kocho also fell into their hands. Twenty-year-old Nadia was among dozens of young women who were abducted and abused. This is the story of her ordeal. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/yazidi-islamic-state-kidnapping-victim-decribes-nine-days-of-horror-a-996909.html

The Call of Jihad

Islamic State has no qualms about killing Kurds in Syria. Yet the organization has still managed to attract Kurdish supporters in Europe. In Hamburg, a number of families are struggling to cope with their sons’ decisions to answer the call of jihad. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/islamic-state-attracts-kurds-from-germany-to-join-jihad-a-997062.html#ref=nl-international