to find out, i've had to leave the celebration in lalish to meet ali khedar alyas.iraqi law, would yazidi community, yazidi council, and baba sheikh, would they accept these children? but i met families that they said that there should be a fatwa. if there is a fatwa from baba sheikh, we will accept, otherwise, we won't accept these children. a week later, the yazidi council published a statement saying children born to islamic state fighters are not accepted. despite what ali khedar alyas told me, this policy of non—acceptance had clearly been in place for a while. during our year—long investigation, we identified 20 yazidi women who had given birth to children under the caliphate. none had been allowed to bring their child home. we did find one woman who had kept her baby. we arranged to meet her in the privacy of my hotel room. she doesn't want the community to know she is speaking to us. rojin, not her real name, fell pregnantjust weeks before she was freed by the islamic state and gave birth seven months later when she was back in iraq. she is now secretly rais