Kurdish forces swaps female ISIS captive for 50 Yezidi Kurdish women

Kurdish forces swaps female ISIS captive for 50 Yezidi Kurdish women. (Rudaw).

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – A captured female member of the Islamic State (ISIS) group was swapped for 50 Yezidi Kurdish women in the hands of the militants, a Syrian Kurdish commander said.

Saeid Hussein, a commander of the YPJ, the women’s wing of the Kurdish YPG force that controls Syria’s Kurdish regions, announced the swap.

“We arrested two ISIS members; one of them was a woman. We exchanged this woman for 50 Yezidi women,” he said.

There was some controversy, however, about the details of the exchange. Some sources said the swap took place because the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) had paid to secure the women’s release – something it has been doing since ISIS attacked Yezidi Shingal and kidnapped thousands of women in August 2014.

Qasim Darbo, a Peshmerga commander in Shingal, told Rudaw that his forces had ordered the YPJ to go ahead with the swap.

“They had no choice but to rescue them (the Yezidi women),” he said. “We had a military order to fight them (YPG) if they had refused.”

ISIS members 'entered US and other countries without arousing suspicion with forged passports'

ISIS members 'entered US and other countries without arousing suspicion with forged passports'. (INN).

The investigation into November's Paris terror attacks has revealed that eight migrants entered Europe with the same forged passport as one of the terrorists. 

At the same time, a new report released in the US has brought to light that Islamic State is running a thriving trade in counterfeit passports in Syria and that some of its members are now in the States. 

According to the HSI report, IS has a special printing machine in Deir al Zor, one of its Syrian strongholds, and is using it to produce fake passports.


The report warned that, based on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's intelligence sources, ISIS has access to passport printing machines and blank passport books, raising the possibility the documents could be faked, according to the source.

The source noted that, beyond the report, there's concern that this capability coupled with ISIS access to government buildings in Syria that contain valid biographical data and fingerprint info on Syrian citizens give rise to the threat of identity theft. "(Islamic State) members have already entered the US and are able to enter any country without arousing suspicion," the report said. Read the full story here.  

💥 Another Alarming Intelligence Report: Daesh has access 2official passport-printing machines,blank passport books. https://t.co/iBAQDsTp0R

— Hasan Sari (@HasanSari7) December 12, 2015

Video - Two ISIS fighters, one Female captured alive by Kurds in Sinjar

VIDEO; An ISIS member' wife from Aleppo was captured by Kurdish Female fighters #YPJ+#YJASTAR in Shingal/#Sinjar https://t.co/A3X1YsO9LV

— curdistani (@curdistani) November 13, 2015