as for the mother, she suffered the fate of all captured yazidi women.capturers‘ wives, she says, were as cruel as the men themselves. and other localfamilies did nothing did nothing to help her or the yazidis. she says many relatives are still in that living hell. now, there are still some family members missing, yes? that's a lot! because they say now that daesh is almost defeated, that everywhere is almost liberated. where do you think they are, where could they be? her sister—in—law says there is another problem — isis families may now be passing off captive yazidis as their own children. this 11—year—old yazidi boy was filmed in mosul earlier this year with his isis foster father. he is dressed already as though for battle and there is a kalashnikov against the back wall. the boy is obviously totally dependent on the man, he can have only the vaguest memories of his realfamily. here he is again, looking queasy in the back of a car, as his guardian films him on a drive through mosul. where they're going, no—one can tell. the boy has now been rescued

zahed is a 14—year—old yazidi boy, reunited with his father just three weeks ago. lost his native language, kurdish, and was forcibly converted to the isis version of islam. all that time, they were teaching you guns, and they were teaching you about the koran, what were they telling you about the koran? and he nearly was killed, as he was launched into an attack just five months ago, over the syrian border. how is your leg now? who did they say the enemy was? the infidels. the non—muslims. according to isis, his own father is an infidel, and after three years, not surprisingly, part of the boy's mind may still belong to the group he was forced to fight for. what do they show, the videos? back at the camp, the two children, returning from their music class, are taking me to meet their mother and their aunt. he was separated from his mother, when isis captured them. the family later paid a $28,000 ransom for his release. his military training was shortlived. isis gave up on him after a few days, as the eight—year—old cried and failed to learn. but though he has come

this four—year—old yazidi boy was found with these isis foster father.is dressed ready as if a battle andaa he is dressed ready as if a battle and a a rifle can be seen against the wall. here he is again, looking queasy at the back of a car as his guardian films him in a mosul. the boy has now been rescued by this man. he is a lawyer, and now devotes himself full—time searching for lost yazidi children and reuniting them with theirfamilies. that kid is only four years old. however young they start, it will be yea rs before however young they start, it will be years before he can become an isis soldier or even a slave. from the looks in the video, it almost looks as though the man is being kind to him. he has rescued more than 200 children and women slaves over the past two years. he has a network across iraq and syria that research for captured yazidi. he says that some isis families are living on —— undetected, among other displaced people in camps have taken the captives with them. even now, though, slaves are still too scared to try to escape. million

it's been three years since the genocide of the yazidi kodesh religious minority in syria and iraq at the crisis is far from over but the un acknowledging that the genocide is ongoing r.t. is probably boyko spoke to years edis who say the international international community isn't doing much to help. these were the images that shocked the world over three years ago thousands of use edis trapped on mountain jar in northern iraq . to a low. the media told the harrowing stories of the use e.d.s. persecution at the hands of jihadists it all i shot them and then they cut the heads off of the little room people trying to jump on board the crowd on board the helicopter burst into tears the united nations has called i sold attempt to wipe out the religious minority group genocide the genocide as i'm going and remains largely unaddressed despite the obligation of space party to the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide of nine for eight to prevent and to punish the crime three years old the public's attention has shifted elsewhere but the struggle continues the

they chased thousands of christians, yazidis, shabaks, turkmen, and other minorities from their homes. in tikrit, the birthplace of sadaam hussein, they rounded up and massacred 1,700 shia soldiers and posted this video online. then in august, isis baited the u.s. by releasing this video. >> this is james wright foley, an american citizen of your country. >> today, the entire world is appalled by the brutal murder of jim foley by the terrorist group isil. >> the foley case really became the trigger, and all of a sudden, isis went from being an anonymous force on the ground far away to something that had a consequence here at home. >> i can announce that america will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat. our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, isil. >> smith: after trying for three years to keep america out of another mideast war, president obama entered the fight. america was back at war again. >> the perception at that point was that isis was a virtually unstoppable force. he felt compelled to act. >> smith: the president declared isis a