The ISIS fighters then took the girl to another location where she was given nothing but a sheer dress to wear and was raped by an ISIS fighter. The girl’s father cursed ISIS and ended the phone call. The fighters contacted the girl’s father, saying that that they had the girl and her aunt in captivity, and that if he wanted their release, he and her brother should surrender to them.
September – ISIS fighters arrested a 16-year-old girl and her aunt as they were attempting to escape ISIS-controlled territories. On the third day, the Iraqi army liberated the woman and killed the ISIS fighters. One woman reported being raped by three ISIS fighters repeatedly for two days. November – After raiding a village, ISIS fighters took seven women to a cave that served as their headquarters. The women were eventually able to escape. He then exchanged her for another woman with an ISIS fighter, who also enslaved and raped her for more than days. The head of accounting for ISIS took the woman to his house, enslaved her, and raped her repeatedly for 20 days. ISIS executed all four captured men, released the old women and children, but detained the woman and five others, who were imprisoned, beaten, and then distributed amongst the fighters. Their home in Hawija was raided by ISIS several times during the occupation, and ISIS fighters arrested the woman, her mother, and four families for trying to escape. November – After a woman’s husband was executed, she went to live with her mother-in-law. While MADRE has made every effort to document gender-based killing that ISIS militants have carried out during this timeframe, this timeline should not be considered comprehensive. The incidents are a compilation of executions and killings reported by several independent sources. MADRE cannot verify the credibility of the executions detailed in this timeline. This is a timeline of documented incidences of women killed by ISIS because of their gender expression, including defying ISIS ascribed roles, behaviors, dress, and other gender attributes.