Baghdad, Aug 15, (RHC), – Reports coming from the militancy-riddled northern Iraq suggest that the ISIS militants are selling captured female Izadi Kurds as sex slaves.

Local Kurdish intelligence sources say the women are being sold to traffickers to work in brothels across the Middle East.

The sources also say they have received information that the captured women are sold between USD 500 and USD 43,000.

Local residents and witnesses say several women have been forced to marry the ISIS militants.

This comes as al-Qaeda-linked militants have captured thousands of women, including at least 1,200 females from the city of Sinjar.

Thousands of members of the Kurdish minority group have fled their homes after ISIS militants attacked them in remote areas of northern Iraq.

The notorious Islamist militants have already killed hundreds of the Izadi Kurds and captured their women.

Some 15,000 Izadis are staying in the Newroz camp near the al-Qamishli district of the al-Hasakah Governorate in Syria. The UNHCR is working with local NGOs to supply the refugees with basic humanitarian aid.

The ISIS militants have been committing heinous crimes in the captured areas, including the mass execution of civilians and Iraqi security forces.