For the rest of her life, Shrihan Rasho suffered from the scars of physical torture by the extremist militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS, the death of her mother, and her missing brother before illness destroyed her strength.
On August 11, 2025, Shrihan died in a hospital in Duhok Northern Province after losing weight due to stomach ulcers.
"Shrihan had an ulcer, could not eat, was very weak, then her illness increased and despite receiving treatment, she died," said Shahab Ahmad, head of the office of survivors of ISIS in Sinjar.
Ahmad says Shrihan's suffering was not only due to the disease but also part of the old and unhealed wounds of captivity by IS as sex slave.
Shrihan, whose life story was published in 2019 by KirkukNow, was from a large family of eight sisters and two brothers. During the August 3, 2014 attacks of ISIS on the area, Shrihan (27) fell into the hands of militants with a brother and her mother, Daya Gully, the woman the Yazidis name as a symbol of defense.
KirkukNow previously published the story of Daya Gule, who confronted ISIS and shot at a number of fighters when they were arrested and tried to force one of her daughters. Daya Gully was shot in front of her son and daughter after killing an ISIL emir and wounding another militant.
“After my mother was martyred, my brother and I were transferred to Khanasur (in Sinjar) and stayed there for four days. Then we were sent to Syria,” She told KirkukNow. Later, she was transferred from Syria to Tala'afar, Ba'aj, Mosul, and other areas of Nineveh.
Shrihan, who had been sexually assaulted, trafficked, and sold 21 times, was rescued from ISIS in 2018 after four years of kidnapping for $13,000 with the help of Yazidi charities.
In accordance with the Ezidi Survivors Law, Shrihan's has been awarded a monthly salary, and the government took over the treatment in the hospital. Two days before her death, Shahab Ahmad said, approval was obtained to send her to a hospital abroad.
Over 1,293 Yazidis have been killed and 6,417 others kidnapped in ISIS attacks in Nineveh, the fate of more than 2,500 of whom remains unknown, including Shrihan's brother.
“I am very tired of life and I want nothing but good news, my brother's rescue,” Shrihan said several years ago, but she did not receive the good news.
