BAGHDAD, Oct 5, 2018 (MENA) - Iraqi President Barham Salih congratulated on Friday Nadia Murad, who won the Nobel Peace Prize 2018, AlSumaria news channel reported. Winning the prize is a tribute to Iraq's steadfastness and struggle in face of terrorism and extremism, Salih said in a statement. Honoring Murad asserts the world's recognition of the suffering of Yazidis and all victims of terrorism in Iraq, the Iraqi president said during a phone call with Murad. Meanwhile, Speaker of the Iraqi House of Representatives Mohammed al-Halbusi congratulated Murad on winning the prize. Murad is a Yazidi woman from the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, who was held as a sex slave by the terrorist Daesh group. In 2016, at age 23, she was made a UN goodwill ambassador for the dignity of survivors of human trafficking.