US Secretary of State John Kerry slammed the Takfiri group, ISIL for "abhorrent" abuses on Tuesday after the terrorists boasted of selling captured women and girls as slaves.

US Secretary of State John Kerry slammed the Takfiri group, ISIL for "abhorrent" abuses on Tuesday after the terrorists boasted of selling captured women and girls as slaves.

Islamic State militants said abducted Yazidi women and children had been divided among its fighters.

Kerry described the act as despicable, and said the group "does not represent Islam."

"ISIL now proudly takes credit for the abduction, enslavement, rape, forced marriage and sale of several thousand... women and girls, some as young as 12 years old," Kerry said in a statement, referring to an alternative name for the insurgents.

"ISIL rationalizes its abhorrent treatment of these women and girls by claiming it is somehow sanctioned by religion. Wrong. Dead wrong."

Tens of thousands of Yazidis, a minority population mostly confined to northern Iraq, have been displaced by the four-month-old Takfiri offensive in the region.
The United States has been leading an air campaign against ISIL in Iraq since August 8.

Kerry called on the international community to condemn the "commoditization of women and children as spoils of war, including through their subjection to horrific physical and sexual violence, intimidation, and deprivation of liberty."

Rights watchdog Amnesty International accused the Terrorist group of widespread abuses, and said its members are committing war crimes.