More than 50 Yazidi women and children were exchanged last week for Islamic State prisoners held by Kurdish forces in Syria. Two IS commanders were exchanged for the women and children. Kurds holding the two were part of the armed wing of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party, known as the YPG. The women and children were returned home to Sinjar in northern Iraq. Sinjar is the main city for Yazidis in Iraq. It was liberated from IS last year by Kurdish Peshmerga forces. Those fighters are supported by the U.S.-led coalition. The Yazidis were taken from the same town 19 months ago, according to a Kurdish news agency. “I have talked to some of them yesterday,” said Dawud Sheik Kalo, a Yazidi fighter. He said the women and children are safe. A former prisoner told the Kurdish news agency she spent nine months in Iraq and 11 months in Syria.
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were part of the armed wing of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party, known as the YPG.</span> <span data-start-time='28896' data-end-time='35750'>The women and children were returned home to Sinjar in northern Iraq. </span> <span data-start-time='35750' data-end-time='41917'>Sinjar is the main city for Yazidis in Iraq. </span> <span data-start-time='41917' data-end-time='48958'>It was liberated from IS last year by Kurdish Peshmerga forces. </span> <span data-start-time='48958' data-end-time='54375'>Those fighters are supported by the U.S.-led coalition.</span> <span data-start-time='54375' data-end-time='64104'>The Yazidis were taken from the same town 19 months ago, according to a Kurdish news agency.</span> <span data-start-time='64104' data-end-time='72667'>“I have talked to some of them yesterday,” said Dawud Sheik Kalo, a Yazidi fighter. </span> <span data-start-time='72667' data-end-time='76167'>He said the women and children are safe.</span> <span data-start-time='76167' 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