IS using Yazidi women as 'sex slaves' as justified custom of spoils of war in Iraq

The Islamic State (IS) group has said that it is using women as sex slaves from the minority Yazidi sect in what it praised as the revival of an ancient custom of using women and children as spoils of war.

According to News24, the IS militants provide justification in the online magazine for the enslavement of defeated 'idolators'.

IS extremists also claim that people had deviated from the old custom of enslavement but it was revived after the fighters overran Yazidi villages in the Sinjar region of Iraq.

After kidnapping these women, they were divided according to the Shari'ah amongst the extremists who formed a part of the Sinjar operations, said the IS militant group.

Yazidi women and girls are also being forced by IS militants to marry them and were being shipped out in busloads from Iraq and Syria to be sold off as prizes, said the article on slavery confirming practices documented by Human Rights Watch.