Officials: Libyan forces clash with Daesh near Dhara oilfield
Kendor added that some of the victims had been buried alive, noting that Daesh terrorists had buried the women from the Izadi minority group in a fish farm, and the grisly discovery was made by local search teams.
In August 2014, Daesh terrorists overran the town of Sinjar, killing, raping, and enslaving large numbers of Izadi Kurds.
The region was recaptured in November 2015, during an operation by Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Izadi fighters.
The Office of the Affairs of the Kidnapped in the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk said last year that around 3,500 Izadi Kurds were still being held captive by Daesh, adding that a large proportion of the abductees were women and children.
The Endowments and Religious Affairs Ministry of the semiautonomous Kurdistan Regional Government announced last August that Daesh’s genocide against Izadis had forced nearly 360,000 members of the minority to flee their hometowns, and another 90,000 to leave Iraq and take refuge in others countries. Libyan forces fought suspected Daesh terrorists, killing three of them near an oilfield run by Waha Oil in the southeast of the country, military officials said on Saturday.
The clash took place near the Dhahra oilfield, operated by Waha, a joint-venture between Libya’s state National Oil Company and US firms Hess, Marathon and Conocophillips, Reuters wrote.
The oil protection force guarding the Waha operations is allied to country’s eastern government. The Un-backed administration sits in the capital Tripoli in western Libya.
The North African country has been mired in conflict since the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 and in December armed men blew up a Waha pipeline pumping crude to Es Sider port, temporarily cutting Libyan output by around 100,000 barrels per day. Officials blamed “terrorists”, without giving details.
The area has poor security and sources say it has been populated by Daesh terrorists since they lost control of their stronghold in Libya, the central city of Sirte, in 2016.