According to Kurdpress, Saeed Masto, director of Yazidi affairs in the Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs of the Kurdistan Region, said in an interview with the media: "We are aware that it is said that some of these armed people who were transferred to Iraq were involved in the genocide of Yazidis, but their identity has not been officially announced yet.

He added: "We are seriously pursuing ISIS elements who are accused of committing crimes against Yazidis in Shingal, and we will file a legal complaint against them."

The director of Yazidi affairs in the Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs of the Kurdistan Region also stated: "In Iraq, we have to file a complaint against ISIS elements based on the anti-terrorism law." This is not the first time, and legal complaints have been filed against ISIS members in Iraq before, and some of them have even been sentenced to death."

According to the statistics of the Office for the Rescue of Abductees by ISIS, during the ISIS attack on Shingal and its surrounding areas on August 3, 2014, 6,417 Yazidi Kurds were kidnapped and thousands of people were massacred or disappeared. So far, about 3,595 kidnapped people have been released.