Sipan Khalil was 15 years old when she was captured by ISIS terrorists. This week, her seven-year nightmare ended, and she was reunited with her family. After seven years in captivity by the militants of the terrorist group ISIS, Sipan is finally safe, in the loving arms of his family.

To date, according to the statistics of a non-governmental organization, from two to three thousand Yazidis are still missing. It is believed that many of them are being held by ISIS militants or their families, who returned to their former lives when their so-called caliphate fell, or are being held in camps in north-eastern Syria (Rojava).

Sipan, who survived a seven-year nightmare, recalls:

"We were deprived of food and tortured. We were locked in rooms and beaten. Our condition was similar to that of the dead. They beat us with their hands, cables, sticks and iron fittings, beat our heads against the walls. It was very painful."

The militants called it (Bakiya) - in Arabic, "Eternity". She understands her native Yazidi language, but can no longer speak it.

In 2019, when ISIS was defeated in their last Syrian stronghold of Baguz, Sipan's abductor took her with him, first to the neighboring town of Hajin, Deir ez-Zor province, and then to Daraa in southern Syria. Three months ago, he tried to smuggle a Sipan across the border to Lebanon, but was killed on the way. The girl says that there was an explosion and the militant was killed. After his death, Sipan was finally able to contact her family.

"She contacted us two months ago. She had our phone number. Then we tried to find her with the help of the Yazidi House organization. Representatives of this organization went to Daraa and issued documents to return it, " said Sipan's brother Bahjat Khalil.

The Yazidi House is a charitable organization based in Rojava. Working with the security forces of Rojava, they rescued 410 Yazidi women.

Women from Shangal and their children can be found in all parts of Syria. Last week, the organization's employees rescued a woman in the Daraa district. A 25-year-old man was found two weeks ago in a village in the province of Deir ez-Zor. Another of the last rescued women is Zere Mito Shvan. After ISIS was defeated in Baguz, Zere's abductor took her and her family to his native village of Chikhail. The village was under the control of the US-led global coalition against ISIS. She was close to freedom, but she lived there in prison for two years without access to a phone. Zere was rescued on July 19 and is now waiting to return to her family in Shangal.

Sipan and her family were reunited at the Hanke camp, Duhok, where some of her relatives live. All 12 members of the Sipan family were abducted or went missing under ISIS. Her father and brother are still missing, and her mother and four siblings moved to Germany.

"Now we are back, thank God. Now I have started a new chapter in my life. Despite the fact that I am with my family, I cannot celebrate this happiness, because my father and brother are still missing, " Sipan said.

Thousands of Yazidis are still living in camps, unable to return to their homes due to the lack of reconstruction, basic living conditions and security.

Source Ezdina