sinjar because there was a lot of publicity surrounding mt. sinjar.there was a report in "the guardian" a few weeks ago -- >> i don't read it. >> -- which suggested the crisis in mt. sinjar clearlyv@vú8@v0 over. we have taken for granted that the civilians by the u.s. suddenly withdrew, it seemed to me, from mt. sinjar because they said there were only a small number left. was that accurate? do we know exactly what the state of play is now? are people still not able to get off the mountain without assistance? >> i think it was accurate. these situations are difficult to assess in the heat of the moment. and the humanitarian organizations were preparing for, quite rightly, large numbers of people trapped on the mountain. i think a combination of overestimate of the number of people there originally. the fact that people are intrinsically resourceful, night after night numbers of people were getting themselves off the mountain and the involvement of peshmerga forces in rescuing groups of people to syrian kurdish forces in rescuing people from the mount

he broke his back in a car accident in sinjar two months ago. when the islamic state fighters came to their village, his father and brother carried him up sinjar mountain. after seven days on the mountain they walked 12 hours down again into syria and back into northern iraq. inside the temple he ties knots in slic silk and ask for peace h the yazidis and that he's given one more chance to visit la lesh. jane arraf, al jazeera, la lesh iraq. >> breaking news out of syria where the first time the united states last intervened in the three year war. hitting targets belonging to the islamic state of iraq and the levant. now, the pentagon press secretary released this state. "i can confirm that u.s. military and partner nation forces are undertaking military action against i.s.i.l. terrorists in syria, using a mix of fighter, bomber and tome hawk land attack missiles. let's first go to the syrian turkish border, our correspondent stephanie decker has that story. >> frustration is met by force. turkish forces try to control the few hundred kurds who

successes in mosul dam, in the sinjar mountains, amerli, and they were more confident and the language changed they were "these strikes worked in iraq, but syria has been the key for the iraqis." if you want to defeat i.s.i.l., you need to hit them, that target, in syria. the difference is there's a ground force here in iraq, that can go in the iraqi army. the kurds are able to go in after the air strikes and clear the area. the rebels are not in that position to go in after a u.s. air strike like this. we have to understand that there is a tactical difference between the two countries when it comes to mounting the air strikes, you don't have the ground capability. i.s.i.l. learnt - they knew the air strikes were coming at syria at some point. we heard that their headquarters in raqqa in syria have been abandoned. they have changed their tack tucks. i.s.i.l. used to travel in large convoys. they'd stop outside of a town and city and send a person into that town or city and say we are either going to come in with guns or we'll come in peacefully if you surrender. they changed that in th

slopes of mount sinjar. when help finally arrived, they were desperate.nd now they are asking for support to bring back their missing loved ones. families have drawn up lists of those they are searching for. human rights activists know of over 5000 men, women, and children who were taken. this young woman was tortured and starved. she got away during airstrikes targeting i.s. three days toor find safety. they sell girls as young as nine, she says. some men bought many out wants. two of my friends hung themselves from a ceiling fan and one slit her wrists rather than be sold for sex. much for her answer to bear. her other two daughters are still missing. >> they took all our girls. it is all the care about. the world must help us. >> islamic state fighters are trading in people. young girls are treated as spoils of war and scattered across the region. families here worry that if they are not found soon, they may never see them again. bbc news, northern iraq. >> there are still nearly 4000 missing. the council will be recalled on friday. they will debate a

. >> can i take you to mount sinjar, because there was a lot of publicity surrounding a? it was a warning report in "the guardian" a few weeks ago. >> as is well known, i do not read it. >> it was suggested that the crisis on mount sinjar certainly were not over. we've taken for granted a surveillance by the u.s.a., which suddenly withdrew from mount sinjar because they said their own a small number left. was that accurate? to know precisely what the state of play is now? are there still people not able to get off the mountain without assistance from somebody else? >> i think it was accurate. i mean, these situations are quite difficult to assess in the heat of the moment. the humanitarian organizations were preparing for, quite rightly, a worst case scenario where without they were very large numbers of people trapped on the mountain. i think a combination of possibly overestimation of the number of people there originally. the fact people are insensitive resourceful, and night after night numbers of people were getting themselves off the mountain, and the involvement of

sinjar who effectively continued to fight. so this whole illage of the pk kflt coming into northern iraq and the kurdistan region remains in the minds of many kurds today. and that is something that has changed. secondly, even if you look at some of the discourse of what's going on between these parties, they're actually competing for each other, competing against each other, regarding who's making claims to saving more people. this is not a strategic alliance. it's a tactical one. each one continues to vie for the support of kurdish populations for gaining influence. that has not changed. but, again, the pk k's capitalized on this moment. what else has not changed? the kurdistan region, the barzani turkish alliance. some of them are disappointed with turkey for not having come to the iraqi kurds' defense militarily. it remains essential, not only commercially but politically. so some of the same limitations that existed before the mosul intervention continues today. and i don't think that barzani is going to sacrifice his rel

when we took them on at sinjar mountain we freed the people at sinjar mountain and we have currently enabled people to hold them off at haditha dam and it is clear from the intelligence we pick up, that what we're doing now, which has fundamentally been more defensive an offensive, has already had an impact on them. i am convinced that the proper effort, we can have an impact. >> i don't dispute that you've had in the short term an impact to stem their advances, at least within the region that they're in. my question, though, is -- no one reasonably can come from the administration and suggest that the ultimate goal, which is taking out this network, is not going to be a multiyear effort? >> it's a multiyear effort. the president has already said that. >> with that as a reality, then let me turn to the aumf. how is it that the administration believes that -- and i support its efforts, but how is it that the administration believes that the 9/11 aumf or the iraq aumf provide the authorization to move forward, whether the congress decides to or not? it was not too long ago that members

when we took them on at sinjar mountain, we freed the people at sinjar mountain and we have currently enabled people to hold them off at haditha dam. it's clear from the intelligence we pick up that what we're doing now, which is fundamentally been more defensive than offensive, has already had an impact on them. i'm convinced that with proper effort, question have an impact. >> i don't dispute that you've had in the short term an impact to stem their advances. at least within the region they're in. my question, though, no one can reasonably come from the administration and suggest that the ult mad goal, which is taking out this network, is not going to be a multiyear effort? >> it's a multiyear effort. the president -- >> with that as a reality, then let me turn to the aumf. how is it that the administration believes that -- and i support its efforts, but how is it that the administration believes that the 9/11 aumf or the iraq aumf provide the authorization to move forward, whether the congress decides to or not? you know, it was not too long ago that members of the administration a

in iraq, when the air strikes happen, we have had examples of these in amerli and the sinjar mountains, where the air strikes happen and ground forces from the kurdish and iraqi forces went in and cleared areas of i.s.i.l. fighters. they are unavailable in iraq. the syrian rebels are not in a position to go into those territories, they are not strong enough. this would be a different tactical approach. the air strikes would have been attacking places like rafah, a key strong hold of i.s.i.l. in syria, the headquarters, it seems, has been attacked according to a lot of reports. they won't have been able to go - the ground troops won't be able to clear the area. we had this example in iraq, what i.s.i.l. have done is disappeared into the countryside. they have gone into villages and population. >> imran, that's the correspondent in the iraqi capital. imran khan. >>> the air strikes come after the beheading of two american journalists by i.s.i.l., lisa stark in washington d.c. has more on the escalation against i.s.i.l. >> we understand that we are not going to hear from the president ton

in iraq, when the air strikes happen, we have had examples of these in amerli and the sinjar mountains, where the air strikes happen and ground forces from the kurdish and iraqi forces went in and cleared areas of i.s.i.l. fighters. they are unavailable in iraq. the syrian rebels are not in a position to go into those territories, they are not strong enough. this would be a different tactical approach. the air strikes would have been attacking places like rafah, a key strong hold of i.s.i.l. in syria, the headquarters, it seems, has been attacked according to a lot of reports. they won't have been able to go - the ground troops won't be able to clear the area. we had this example in iraq, what i.s.i.l. have done is disappeared into the countryside. they have gone into villages and population. >> imran, that's the correspondent in the iraqi capital. imran khan. >>> the air strikes come after the beheading of two american journalists by i.s.i.l., lisa stark in washington d.c. has more on the escalation against i.s.i.l. >> we understand that we are not going to hear from the president ton

american fighter jets also destroyed an isis convoy near sinjar. >> but we are told that these latest strikes are not the start of a major offensive. u.s. senle tral command has now carried out 162 air strikes since august. word of the latest military action came just hours after dozens of countries, including ten arab say thes vowed to use any means necessary to stop isis. >> they called isis a threat to the international community. but still not totally clear what role each country will play. france has already began reconnaissance flights over iraq, saying there's no time to lose. >> the murderers say to the world, either you're with us or we kill you. and when you are facing a group like that, there is no other possibility but to defend yourself. >> despite the show of unity, two key players in the region were not invited to the conference. iran was left out, due to ongoing tensions with the u.s. and saudi arabia. >> and so was syria, which isis uses as a safe haven. michelle kosinski has a closer look. >> the nation is grateful, and your commander in chief could not be prouder. >

central command says american airplanes blew up six isis vehicles near sinjar and launched an air strike in a sunni area southwest of baghdad where militants were reportedly firing on iraqi security forces. and this was apparently the closest strike yet to baghdad. and this one is a first, because it had nothing to do with the humanitarian missions. the u.s. military has now carried out 162 air strikes in iraq since early august. >>> meanwhile, dozens of countries and organizations have promised to use all possible means to combat isis, including military force and finding ways to cut off the group's funding. >> they issued a statement at the international conference in paris calling for rapid action. france says there's no time to lose and has already begun reconnaissance flights over iraq. >> translator: the murderers say to the world, either you are with us or we kill you. and when you are facing a group like that, there is no other possibility but to defend yourself. >> and while the international community shapes its strategy against isis, kurdish peshmerga forces are fighting on th

now that theret is nobody stranded on mount sinjar, who is trapped there. this --to say, this isn't to say that it's a peaceful weighings there. forces stilll around the mountain. but we're confident the people move off the mountain can do. we should also remember that there are significant numbers of who aren that region thelaced from the period of exodus from mount sinjar and before it and they remain displaced. so it's a major humanitarian problem in that area. of peshmerga from turkey also are providing assist says tans in the release of some of those people trapped. pk, which is ahe terrorist organization in this obviouslynd they are key to continuing to fight isis.t desubject vibe them, or whatever the wore is, so they're no longer a terrorist organization? >> well, that of course will be the home secretary to consider and she will do so on the basis of the evidence about gainment in terrorist activities. it is not the case that simply a terrorist organization carries out an act of it willrian kindness, cease to be a terrorist organization. i make no

central command said pilots bombed targets on sunday near the northwestern town of sinjar. they were fighting iraqi forces southwest of baghdad. president obama said last week he was broadening the campaign to destroy the militant group. he said the strategy is beyond protects u.s. citizens. the president said the u.s. will deploy 75 additional service members to iraq. he indicated he is willing to launch air strikes on the islamic state militants in syria. >>> members of obama's administration are trying to build a coalition. they have been pressing leaders in iran. the supreme leader is rejecting the request. ayatollah khomeini spoke on state-run tv. he said washington's goal of maintaining influence in the middle east is hollow and self serving. iran is a predominately shia nation and on alert with the fighters in the group. some analysts said iran and the u.s. may team up against the islamic state. >>> residents of ukraine hope the cease-fire would hold. people in the city of donetsk got caught in a battle on sunday. six residents killed and 15 wounded and some homes de

you know, look at mosul, tikrit, sinjar, a big part of the land mass.blood and treasure, as i've been asking all night tonight, that was lost. how do you feel if you're one of the parents that lost one of those 4,000 heroes? >> sean, as you and i know because we've been out there together with the american people and people have walked up to me with their son and me standing there in helmets looking filthy and i would say how's he doing and the worst moment in my life people say, well, he was killed last week, he was killed a month ago, he was on his fifth tour when he was killed. the blood sacrifice that's been made by the american people and soldiers, sailors, airmen, guardsmen and marine all over iraq is never going to be complete because of what this president did. the bugout in december of 2011 -- that's what the troops call it, the obama bug outset it stage for what happened in syria. and then the decision not to help the free syrian army two years ago when they could have and it would have survived. now you've got -- this is what i was told today

their direct root to the sinjar mountains. the general says they are battling a superior force. >>> as an army we need everything from a to z, everything from uniforms, small weapons, night vision kits, tanks, and even if we have mortars, if we don't have night vision, we can't see where the enemy is. we need the package. >> can you win the battle on the ground without foreign fighters? >> no. >> he may get his wish, after the head of the u.s. military could well recommend the 1600 advisors in iraq go on combat messages. the general is getting help from an unlikely quarter. kurdish fighters are taking two bases on iraqi soil. >> translation: these are heavily fortified castles. it's believed ypp controls them, not i.s.i.l. if you control the fortifications, you control the whole area. >> the peshmerga trying hard to hold the line. at the moment it's a fight against time. they desperately need the foreign weapons they that have promised to come up and be trained. the air strikes can sometimes take two hours to get here and reac

the second one in sinjar also in northern iraq where other strikes have taken place.oy, an isis convoy up there.

but they have pushed back the islamic state at mosul dam, around the sinjar mountain with the yazidis. we've had a string of small victories that we've seen over the past two or three weeks. i suspect the president will be explaining that as proof of principles as we go forward and seek to expand and essentially mass produce that type of effort in islamic state and iraq. >> you used to be in charge of corralling some of our allies. let's talk more about that liberation that deliberation that a lot hold, and at the same time americans are repulsed by the new capture burning to the ground of towns by the islamic state. >> well, i think the way you do this is you do this in the same way you do it issued quietly from the top on down. the president making phone calls to his counterparts. he was lucky that he had to be in europe last week so he could actually meet with people one-on-one, and start making the case that this is not something that is not just important for the taws. united states, not just important to the region, but you saw the major statement in the house of comment commenc

>> reporter: these are the survivors of an attempted genocide, thousand of yazidi that escaped to sinjar mountain after islamic state fighters took over their town in the north of iraq. they finally ended up here. the rem nans of families -- remnants of families whose men were murdered and women captured. on august 15th islamic state fighters rounded up the men and teenage boys in the schoolyard. >> translation: they told us they'd let us go to the mountain. then they took us to a field and started shooting. i ran away and hid in a neighbouring village. >> reporter: they say when the neighbours filmed them with a cell phone, they knew they'd die. the yazidi faith is ancient. they believe in god and seven angels. islamic state fighters believe it's their duty to kill them. in thisifiedio -- this video released by the islamic state group, they are told they are infidels, and are given a chance to convert. to save their lives, they do. >> this man who escape the lists the residents he lost. >> my mother, father and brother --a eight people in all. they say the international community failed

doing this very successfully thus far in places -- not only the rural places like we saw in mount sinjarand as we went to support the iraq forces, but also in a relatively built up area. and i think we will continue to look at how we can do that as we move forward. [ inaudible ] >> reporter: general just to ask an earlier question a different way, what percentage of the total munitions were dropped by u.s. forces? >> yeah. the preponderance of the force was -- came from u.s. platforms, so -- >> reporter: [ inaudible ]? >> i quite honestly will have to get into the numbers and actually count the types of munitions. it's a little bit misleading because we used a different type of munitions. so we might have a very precise munition that can service an effect with only one rocket, one missile, and others may have to service it a couple of times to get the effects we see -- >> reporter: the vast majority were carried out by american air forces. >> reporter: the math bares that out, that's right. >> reporter: [ inaudible ] of the [ inaudible ] similar to what happened to the agenzidis. [ inaud

troops have already delivered life-saving and thousands of threatened iraq civilians on mount sinjar in the iraqi town of amile. the united states is the single largest donor of humanitarian assistance for the millions of syrians affected by the civil war. since the start of the syrian conflict, the united states has committed almost $3 billion in the humanitarian assistance to those affected by this war. all four elements of this strategy require a significant commitment of resources on the part of the united states and our coalition partners. this effort will not be easy. this effort will not be brief. this effort will not be simple. we are at war with isil, just as we are at war with al-qaeda. destroying isil will require more than military efforts alone. it will require political process in the region and effective partners on the ground in iraq and in syria. as president obama said yesterday in tampa, we cannot do for the iraqi's what they must do for themselves. we can't do for them, but this is an effort to calls on america's unique capabilities and abilities and responsibilit

even larger scale than what happened in sinjar. so what the people i spoke today are telling me, military people are telling me that isis predicted the attacks are coming. so they most of their manpower where it's been targeted right now. so what is being targeted at the moment are buildings, concrete buildings. really not damaging a lot on the ground wise. practical wise. so the negative impact is, of course, all those fighters are left -- are moving towards. so the pressure over the city has increased. after these attacks. so this -- this increases the possibility of city falling into isis or massacre -- even more. this is one of the things i need to share with you. the demand from the local officials is that if u.s. is willing to destroy isis, they should focus on some targets around, too. the city's being attacked from three directions. the west, east and south. the north is turkey. the turkish border. so all three possible directi s directions, the city's under attack. despite the fact that kurds have been fighting or resistin

airstrikes in iraq that began months ago saved thousands of refugees trapped by isis on mount sinjar and stopped the isis advance on the kurdish capital of erbil. scott pelley is there tonight on assignment for "60 minutes." scott. >> pelley: bob, kurdistan is a semi-independent region in northern iraq. it has its own military, called the peshmerga, and today, we found them eye to eye with isis. the isis advance stopped just short of lieutenant mohammad's bridge. that's the isis flag on one end, and mohammad's men on the other. why is this bridge so important? "this is the road to kirkuk," he told us. kirkuk is the gateway to iraq's oil fields. do you have orders to destroy this bridge if it comes to that. "no, mohammad said, the people will need the bridge. no one is going to take my bridge. he couldn't have said that a month ago when these troops were forced back toward the capital erbil. but now, the american air campaign means that isis can't mass its forces or move with any speed. thanks to the u.s. airstrikes, the peshmerga are now on the offensive and eventually, the peshmerga

war planes attacked enemy fighters south of baghdad today and on mount sinjar saying this is the newtiative by president obama to go after isis forces whenever they may be. >> authorities in stockton announced a new arrest, a new reward and person of interest in a july bank robbery police are looking for a man who investigators say might have dropped the suspects off at the bank. misty sing was taken hostage by three robbers that used her as a human shield now, the federal agents are offering an additional $5,000 for information leading to whoever sold or gave the suspects an unlicensed ak 47 like this one. >> people with little to no knowledge of how to manufacture firearms are able to manufacture them because of the processes that are available now. >> one suspect was arrested at the scene. police also arrested a 16-year-old boy they say took the get away car after the shootout. >> tonight record demand for the iphone 6. apple said 4 million people preordered the new iphones. it's created a backlog and many phones will not be delivered until next month. a major victory for tesla, t

we took them on at sinjar mountain. we freed the people at sinjar mountain. and we have currently enable people to be able to hold other places and it is clear from intelligence we pick up that what we're doing now, which has fundamentally been more defensive than offensive, has already had an impact on them. i am convinced that with proper effort we can have an impact. >> i don't dispute that you've had in the short term and impact to stem their advances, at least within the region of their in. my question though, no one reasoreasonably can come from te administration and suggest that the ultimate goal, which is taking up this network, is not going to be a multiyear effort. >> it's a multiyear effort to the president has already said that. >> with the as a reality let me turn to the aumf. how is it that the magician believes that, and i support its efforts, but how is it that the administration pleased that the 9/11 aumf, or the iraq at uf, provide the authorization to move forward whether congress decides to or not, you know it was not too long ago that mem

war planes attacked enemy fighters south of baghdad today and on mount sinjar is the new initiative byo go after isis forces whenever they may be. >> authorities in stockton announced a new arrest, a new reward and person of interest in a july bank robbery police are looking for a man who investigators say might have dropped the suspects off at the bank. misty sing was taken hostage by three robbers that used her as a human shield now, the federal agents are offering an additional $5,000 for information leading to whoever sold or gave the suspects an unlicensed ak 47 like this one. >> people with little to no knowledge of how to manufacture firearms are able to manufacture them because of the processes that are available now. >> one suspect was arrested at the scene. police also arrested a 16-year-old boy they say took the get away car after the shootout. >> tonight record demand for the iphone 6. apple said 4 million people preordered the new iphones. it's created a backlog and many phones will not be delivered until next month. a major victory for tesla, the stock dropped 9% today wh

united states central command said the united states hit isis positions southwest of baghdad and near sinjar which is 40 miles west of mosul and just 12 miles from the syrian border and mosul is a main battle front because iraq's largest hydroelectricic dam is there. this is a heavy battle area. the airstrikes were in support of iraqi forces on the ground. the u.s. has carried out 162 strikes in iraq but there haven't been in any syria. there is no definitive timeline on that yet. but as secretary hagel talked about in the hearing he said the united states quote will target all isis positions. >> thank you, john. >>> the president is set to announce a plan to combat the ebola outbreak. he is visiting the center for disease prevention in atlanta later. the president is set to send people to africa where 2200 people have died. >> this is about an expanded presence in africa to try to deal with this. officials are focused on containing and controlling the disease that has spread rapidly. 3,000 additional troops and build a staging base and 17 treatment centers and train 500 workers per week to

have been doing this successfully thus far in places not only the rural places like you saw in mount sinjar and as we move to support the iraqi forces as they go through mosul but in built up areas we have been able to provide air support without putting forces forward. i think we will continue to look at how we can do that as we move forward. >> general to ask an earlier question a different way. what percentage of the total ammunition were dropped by u.s. force snuz >> the prepond rbis of the force came from united states platforms. i will have to get into the numbers and actually count the types of ammunition. it is a little lis meeting because we use different types of ammunition. we might have a precise one that can service one rocket and missile and others may have to serve as a couple times to get the affect we see. what you heard. three things. the most important aspect is the arab coalition. five arab nations. four nations were dropping bombs. 14 aircraft and all u.s. made were participating and this now has an arab face. the fact the administration managed to put this together and

we were talking the peshmerga forces in mt sinjar. this place is inside of syria. we don't have the capability to direct the air strikes. you can provide cover, but in terms of making sure someone cleans up after the fact - that's not there. >> talking about boots on the ground. that is something the president doesn't want to happen. speaker of the house john boehner says that may be something that has to happen, and do they have to be u.s. troops. >> any troops on the ground shows commitment by the country. it's a big thing. i think the president want to play this out, and extend past the administration. make that decision at the last moment, let the arab nations decide what happens first inside of iraq and syria. over the horizon, that is the nice sis, what happens in -- crisis. what happens here, what do the united nations say about that. that'll be an arab army inside of syria. the ruler of dubai, sheikh mohammed wrote an op-ed, and he said what has to happen, lasting peace requires winning the electoral battle. grassroots human development. seems six, but obvi

one of thousands trapped on mount sinjar and seriale circled by i.s. fighters. >> we reached the mountain. there was one small water spring for thousands of women. the peshmerga disappeared. we could not protect ourselves. the islamic state group singled us out, and they mean to kill us all. >> the camp of the schooling 3,000 yazidis. next door a reminder of the refugee crisis turkey has been managing. one of several refugee camps in the country. the facilities are of high standard but the camp is full and for now there this is the last yazidi refugee camp that will be built in turkey. the turkish government is paying for three refugee camps but they're building them over the border in iraq. security concerns in the final locations in iraq need to be changed. now they expect to be ready for 35,00 3500 yazidis. >> aid, will it be safe? b, will i it allow us to continue services, the same kind of services we've been doing here. >> reporter: but many yazidis we spoke to said that they could never go back to iraq. their ancient religion draws from islam an

seizes a town of sinjar, thousands of yazidi, members of a minority that islamists believe are herraicks flea flee to the mount a. president obama orders food troops and air strikes to protect them. in iraq it's not just yazidi, but christians that worry. >> our life is in danger. >> reporter: what are you telling people that live here that are afraid? >> to stay on their land. we have to encourage them to stay home. >> reporter: in the united states the air strikes are stepped up with iraqi help. they capture ground, including the mosul dam. in retaliation, i.s.i.l. executes james foley, an american journalist it held captive. later steven sotloff, another american journalist, will die at the hand of i.s.i.l. fighters. september 10, 2014, a year since president obama addressed the nation about the situation. he's back to discuss how the u.s. will confront i.s.i.l. he vows to expand the fight. >> i will not hesitate to take action against syria and iraq. this is a core principle of my presidency. if you threaten america, you find no safe haven. >> also part of the new plan, arming th

this person was one of thousands trapped on mt sinjar, circled by is fighters. >> we walked for a longe, until we reached the mountains, it was a small water spring for thousands of women. the peshmerga and iraqi army disappeared. we ran away to protect our honour. we yazidi are targeted. the islamic state group singled us out, meaning to kill us all. >> the camp overs schooling and care. it costs $50,000 a day to run. next door, a reminder of the refugee crisis turkey has been managing for more than three years. at the top of the hill one of the more than 20 syrian refugee camps in the country. the facilities here are of a high standard. the camp is full. for now, this is the last yazidi refugee camp built in turkey. the turkish government is paying for three more refugee camps, but is building them over the border in kurdish glassed iraq. security concerns meant the final location of the camps in iraq had to be changed. now they are expected to be ready to host 35,000 yazidi by mid september. >> we have been in close cooperation with the local authorities, to ensure that the sight we

thousands of yazidis who escap ed to sinjar mountain after islamic state fighters took over their townin north of iraq. they finally ended up here. the remnants of families whose men were murdered and women capture. on august 15th islamic state fighters rounded up the men and teenage boys in a schoolyard. >> they told us they would let us go to the mountain but then they took us to a field and started shooting. i ran away and hid in a neighboring village. >> they said when th they knew they were going to die. the yazidi is an ancient religion. they believe in god and seven angels. they're told they are infidels but they'll be given the chance to convert. to save their lives they do. marad, who was shot while escaping list the relatives he has lost. >> my mother, my father, my brother. eight people in all. there is a lot of anger in the yazidi community. the iraqi government and kurds promised to protect them, but didn't. the international community also failed to prevent a massacre. >> one of her best friends was kidnapped, raped, and then sold. >> what we have seen as whycy dis, i don

. >> it's working and the first screaming was about the people on medication sinjar. they're not up there any more. then her bill was going to fall. then it was he'll then get arabs to rally and do anything goodness the sunni extremists. it's the coverage of that that i think and the response if you're in the political environment in washington is to back off. you don't want to get out there. >> they hold all the same sayretory. they. they've talked with bush about how we've been bombing iraq for weeks and weeks and not move them at all. it's extremely difficult and perhaps impossible to get an insurgent group out of cities entirely from the air. >> i'm not talking about the efficacy of the policies. i'm talking about why the coverage is the way it is. >> you're saying it's working and it's clearly not yet. >> that was a good story in the "new york times" pointing outs that not a lot of progress had been made in iraq. not so good was the correction that took two weeks to get talking about bush and obama had been comparing the two the proemp mr. obama is taking is simi

this is one of thousands trapped on mt sinjar, encircled by is fighters. >> we walked for a long time over rugged landscape until we reached the mountains. it was one small water spring for thousands. the peshmerga and iraqi army disappeared. we couldn't protect ourselves. we ran away. we are always targeted. the islamic state group singled us out, they need to kill us all. >> the camp offers schooling and health care for 3,000 yazidi. it costs $50,000 a day to run. >> next door, a reminder of the refugee crisis turkey has been managing for more than three years. at the top of the hill, within of more than 20 syrian camps. >> the facilities are of a high standard. the camp is full, and for now this is the last yazidi refugee camp that will be built in turkey. the turkish government is paying for three more camps, but is building them over the boarder, in kurdish administered iraq. >> security means that the final location of the camp has to be changed. they are expected to be ready to host 35,000 yazidi by mid september. >> we have to ensure that the site where we build the camps (a)

. >> american warplanes blew up six isis vehicles near sinjar and launched an air strike southwest ofaghdad where militants were reportedly fired on iraqi security forces. >> this was apparently the closest strike yet to baghdad. this one is a first, because it had nothing to do with humanitarian missions. >> it was part of the u.s. president's plan to get more aggressive with isis. th u.s. military has now carried out 162 air strikes in iraq since early august. it is now a little after 10:00 a.m. in northern iraq and our crew there has been hearing fighter jets in the skies. anna coren is live with the details. anna, take us through what you've been witnessing there, not far from the front line. and what the peshmerga fighters that you're with are trying to achieve today. >> reporter: rosemary, we've been here since before dawn. and we heard the jets circling. it wasn't long after that the strikes began and the explosions started. there's been intense fighting here. just to give you an idea of the number of fires that are burning, there are at least eight major fires burning, black p

in iraq, when the air strikes happen, we have had examples of these in amerli and the sinjar mountains, where the air strikes happen and ground forces from the kurdish and iraqi forces went in and cleared areas of i.s.i.l. fighters. they are unavailable in iraq. the syrian rebels are not in a position to go into those territories, they are not strong enough. this would be a different tactical approach. the air strikes would have been attacking places like rafah, a key strong hold of i.s.i.l. in syria, the headquarters, it seems, has been attacked according to a lot of reports. they won't have been able to go - the ground troops won't be able to clear the area. we had this example in iraq, what i.s.i.l. have done is disappeared into the countryside. they have gone into villages and disappeared into the civilian population. >> imran, that's the correspondent in the iraqi capital. imran khan. >>> the air strikes come after the beheading of two american journalists by i.s.i.l., lisa stark in washington d.c. has more on the escalation against i.s.i.l. >> we understand that we are not going

many fled homes in iraq, mountain sinjar home to religious minorities like yazidis. one teen survivor reported they filled up the vehicles indiscriminately. he and his cousin were lined up face down on the ground, cousin was killed, he survived by playing dead. the islamic state group is clearly targeting civilians based solely on their religion. pressured to convert to islam or be killed. pressure is increasing under surveillance and cannot leave. can someone get us out of here? the islamic state group is clearly committing international war crimes. shining more light on the atrocities happening in iraq. david. >> some parts of the middle east are using humor to try distance themselves from it. broadcasting cartoons mocking the islamic state group. these images were aired on state tv in iraq. the message is that i.s. fighters do not represent islam. we are keeping our eye on a developing story out of somalia tonight. the united states confirms that american military forces conducted an braitio operation y against sloo beings al shabaab . >>> in the presence of north

. >> these are thousands of yazidi who escaped to sinjar mountain after islamic state fighters took over their territory. they finally ended up in zapho. nafid and saman are from the village. islamic state fighters rounded up the men and teenage boys in the schoolyard. >> they told us let us go to the mountain but they started shooting. i ran away and hid in a neighboring village. >> reporter: when they said they were started filming with a cell phone they knew they were going to die. they believe in god and seven angels who safeguard the world. believe it is their duty to kill them. in this video released by the islamic state group, thn ma tells them -- this man tells them they are infidels. they are given a right to convert and they do. relatives he's lost. >> my mother, my father, my brother. eight people in all. there's a lot of anger in the yazidi community. the iraqi deposit and the kurds promised to protect them but didn't. they say the international community also failed to prevent a massacre. rashala says one ar one of her t friends was kidnapped and sold. >> translator: i don't

people fled from the islam pick state in early august, they were stranded on the slopes of mount sinjar. when help finally arrived, they were desperate. now they are asking for support to bring back missing loved ones. families have drawn up lists of those they're searching for. human rights activists know of over 5,000 men, women, children who were taken. this young woman was tortured and starved. she got away during air strikes targeting i.s. and walked three days to find safety. they sell girls as young as nine she says. some men bought many at once. two of my friends hanged themselves from the ceiling fans, one slit her wrists rather than be sold for sex. that's too much for her aunt to bare. her other two daughters are still missing. they took all our girls. it's all we care about. the world must help us. the islamic state fighters are trading in people. young girls are treated as spoils of war and scattered across the region. families here worry that if they're not found soon they may never see them again. let's bring you up to date with other news now. >>> china has for the first

far as the gapes that the islamic state made, iraqi forces, peshmerga forces have taken about mt sinjar, mosul dam, amerli and others. how capable are they holding it back? >> the american air strikes are part of that defensive mission. they'll need troops, the iraqi security forces. there's over 300,000 of them out there. they need to get into the fight. they have to come up their way, come through tikrit to get to the fight, to get to the northern part of iraq to roll them back. they'll roll them back across a road network. it's a simply military operation. >> we heard a number of politicians in washington. both suggesting that president obama needs to lead military attacks against islamic state in syria. there has been a push back at the n.a.t.o. meetings with european leaders saying that should not be the focus. what is your take? >> n.a.t.o. has a full plate. they need standard forces, they are dealing with what is happening in ukraine. we'll have a ceasefire, but vladimir putin won the situation. he'll have a veto control over the ukraine government. it's a defensive alliance, if

she went to iraq during this fight against isis on mount sinjar because she heard about the women thate didn't go there herself but there are quite a few units of the pkk who are now fighting. the pkk is an organization that's been involved in an armed struggle against the turkish military for almost three decades now. they've been fighting for kurdish rise in turkey and they are primarily based in the mountains in the border between iraq, turkey and iran. but as a result of the recent developments in northern iran, they went some fighters to areas where avesta was based and also to the place where the yazidi community has been living for some time. >> it's remarkable to put faces to these fighters and think of arab nations where there are women snipers fighting the fight against isis which is why we wanted to have you on. excellent reporting for y inini of iraq. >>> coming up next, disturbing new images from an isis propaganda video showing another hostage alive but this is quite different from anything we have seen before. that's next. [ male announcer ] automotive innovation starts.

it worked at amerli, mosul dam, sinjar, and we have been nibbling away at the edges, even though the air power is limited. there'll be more of it. >> my point is towards the training and arming of the troops and their performance. >> i think the iraqis will have to look hard and decide if they want the army to be a professional force or a rent seeking or patronage organization full of corruption. >> one of the problems how that became what you are talking about is because of former prime minister nouri al-maliki, and now there's word he may be vice president in the new government. is that encouraging? >> i think that the problem is larger than nouri al-maliki. perversely, having him in the government may be the safe place for him. we want him to be aboveboard if you will, and in public view, not out hiding some place. i'm relatively sanguine when he's in the government. it allows everyone else to keep an eye on him. the arab league started making noises about getting involved and aggressive. the president addressed that need yesterday. let's listen to him. >> i think that it is absol

rabia gate, the main border crossing from syria to the road to mosul, and the direct route to the sinjar mountains. the general says they are battling a superior force. >> translation: as an army we need everything from a to z. everything from uniforms, small weapons, heavy machine-guns, tanks, night vision kids. if we don't have the night vision, we can't see where the they are. we need the whole package. >> reporter: can you win the battle on the ground without foreign fighters. >> no. >> he may get his risk. after the head of the u.s. military revealed he could recommend the advisors in iraq go on combat missions. the germ is getting help. syrian fighters with the kurdish group have taken two huge neighbouring bases on iraqi soil. >> these are heavily fortified castles. it's a re leaf they ycp controls them, not i.s.i.l. if you control the fortifications, you control the whole area. >> reporter: the peshmerga trying hard to hold the line. at the moment they say it's a fight against time. they need the foreign weapons that they have programed to come up. the air strikes fired from the

young teenage girl who's now been able to tell some of the stories of being taken off the mountain of sinjard she's saying the fighters are coming directly from syria into these villages in iraq, raping the women and then going straight to the battlefield as if that were incentive, if you will. that's a really frightening thought. i mean, they're using tenets of the religion to drive people over, and then they're putting them into the battle. the idea that the virgins exist here on earth, not in heaven. >> guarantee 17 years from now, another force to fight you. >> yes. >> remember, what's been the dawn of man? rape, pillage, steal. they rape so that they can leave their seed so that seed doesn't fight against the next generation. >> that's very scary. what troubles me is we wouldn't even be having this conversation on this couch if two american journalists, as you pointed out, weren't beheaded. i don't know if the president would have taken the action without those videos. >>> the baltimore ravens playing their first game last night since the video of ray rice beating his wife got him suspe

sinjar, there was a potential operation that the u.s. military was looking at and the intelligence indicated there were two people on the mountain that wanted off and the islamic state was trying to retake the mosul dam. i want to clarify what that looks like for this campaign. >> i don't know that i'd call it a campaign but leaving that aside, we believe the operations have been successful. obviously, as i said, iraqi security forces and kurdish forces are there now and are in control of the township. we're monitoring that. we're not taking that for granted. just like to joe's question on mosul dam, if we need to disrupt isil there, we will do that. so far, we believe that the mission has succeeded and by and large because we got needed provisions to the people there. and we know that it got into the right hands and they've been able to sustain themselves with the food and water that's been provided. it wasn't just us doing this. the president has been very, very clear about, from a aan an anti-isil perspective, it's to disrupt their ab