 On 6 August, ISIL kidnapped 400 Yazidi women in Sinjar to sell them as sex slaves.According to reports from surviving Yazidi, between 3 and 6 August 500 Yazidi women and children were abducted from Ba'aj and more than 200 from Tal Banat.According to a statement by the Iraqi government on 10 August 2014, hundreds of women were taken as slaves in northern Iraq.