Islamic State releases 200 Yazidi prisoners

The Islamic State group has released at least 200 Yazidis after five months of captivity in Iraq, mostly elderly prisoners who may have been slowing the extremists down.

Peshmerga Gen Shirko Fatih, commander of Kurdish forces in the northern city of Kirkuk, said almost all of the freed prisoners are in poor health and bore signs of abuse and neglect. Three young children are among them.