"...what they were doing to the women was more difficult than death."

(United Kingdom)—A 21-year-old Iraqi woman who was tortured and kept as a sex slave by the Islamic State terrorist group has escaped and opened up about the horrific acts the militants are inflicting on women and young girls. (Photo: Reuters/via Gospel Herald)

According to a report from The Mirror, Nadia Murad shared her story during a visit to London, where she revealed that ISIS fighters killed six of her brothers and her mother in Sinjar, a town in Northern Iraq. Although her life was spared, Murad was taken as a sex slave along with 5,000 other Yazidi girls and women.

She explained that some of the women would have chosen to end their lives, however, as the extremist group forced them to endure things that were "more difficult than death."

"A year and a half has passed and the genocide against the Yazidis is continuous. We die every day because we see the world silent in the face of our plight," she recalled.

"My mother saw them killing my brothers and then they took my mother and killed her. I was already orphaned as I didn't have a father, all I had in the war was my mother," Murad continued.

"But when they took me to Mosul and raped me, I forgot my mother and brothers. Because what they were doing to the women was more difficult than death," she added. "Imagine until now, for more than a year and a half, girls as young as 9 are being rented and sold out [for sex]."

In concluding her story, Murad revealed that the Yazidi community has lost trust in the government, as they can't return to Sinjar without protection. She branded ISIS "criminals" who needed to be tackled by the world community and asked for everyone to "come on board" in fighting the militant group.

As earlier reported by The Gospel Herald, over 100 of the Yazidi women who escaped ISIS after their mountain stronghold was attacked in August 2014 recently signed up to fight against the jihadist group. The women, known as the "Force of Sun Ladies," are officially fighting alongside Kurdish Peshmerga forces, while another 500, ranging in age from 17 to 37, are waiting to be trained.

"Now we are defending ourselves from the evil; we are defending all the minorities in the region," Capt. Khatoon Khider told Fox News. "We will...

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