JIHADISTS kidnapped a Yazidi woman from Afrin in northern Syria and took her to Turkey, where she has been beaten and tortured while in prison, human rights campaigners said on Wednesday.

Ghazala Mannan Salmo was abducted by Faylaq al-Sham mercenaries last week from the Yazidi village of Basufan in the Sherawa district, the Human Rights Organisation of Afrin reported.

Also taken were Kurds from the villages of Baiyeh, Basofan, Kabashin and Burj Haydar. They are accused of planting a car bomb that killed the Islamist leader of the al-Hamza Brigade last December.