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Yazidi Woman Who Suffered IS Enslavement Lobbies Washington for Help

A Yazidi woman who suffered for 10 months as a sex slave under the Islamic State group (IS) came to Washington to push for help for the traumatized, displaced Yazidi community in northern Iraq and the hundreds of others who remain in IS bondage. Shireen Jardo, 25, met with several U.S. congressmen and federal officials along with Iraqi aid groups and media. "I told them to rescue our people and our land from IS," Jardo said in an interview with VOA on Friday. "I asked...


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