Yazidi survivor of IS says world has abandoned Kurds who battled 'evil'

Tuesday, 20 January, 2026 , 14:23

Beirut, Lebanon, Jan 20, 2026 (AFP) — Nadia Murad, the Iraqi Yazidi survivor of sexual slavery at the hands of the Islamic State group, condemned on Tuesday what she said was the world's abandonment of the Kurds in Syria.

The US-led coalition "relied on Kurdish forces in Rojava to fight and defeat ISIS", Murad, who went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her work, wrote on X.

"Now, at a critical moment, those who stood on the front lines against evil are being abandoned. What the international community is doing in Syria -- and across the broader region -- is chaos, and innocent people will pay the price."