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This coalition this alliance to counter isis. what is at stake for your country and the region? >> translator: we have to admit that terrorism is now a major threat not only to egypt or even the immediate region but it is a threat to the stability and security of the whole world. >> what do you need to make that arab force that united arab coalition a reality, and do you think it would be more effective in this fight than a u.s.-led coalition? >> translator: there is no confident between the aid...

>> the battle for sinjar is about more than destroying the yezidi yezidis home. its a dealing a powerful blow by isis to continue the campaign. according to the general -- >> translator: they are in great financial through the oil they transit. this is one of the main roads which connects mosul to syria which is why they dont want to lose sinjar. >> indeed the peshmerga as fighting a war not just for their own but to help rid the world of isis. they believe theyll need more support. >> translato...

In 2014 isis rampaged across iraq with their vision of an islamic state with death and destruction. before december, isis controlled a land mass larger than the united kingdom, but perhaps just as significant, they had captured the attention of the world. they did this through a fairly sophisticated social media campaign. as a message to everyone about their intentions, and as a recruiting tool. the one part of the campaign that no one could ignore gruesome videos. they showed such things as bri...

Would do everything we can. in the case of yezidis and the case of northern iraq we have done over 200 air strikes working with them. >> the krurds outgunned. some dont have helmets, some dont have the right armor. how do you respond? >> i talk to the kurds almost every day. when isil launched its attack into the kurdistan region in early act we acted immediately. where we are today they have taken back almost all the territory they lost. congress is going to be supplying the kurds very sophisti...

By isis. many of those being slaughtered by isis were members of the yezidis. those are her people. last year on august 5th as the bodies started piling up she sounded the alarm. ignoring orders to stop talking, she then calls the assault on her community a again sidegenocide, and says, quote, brothers i appeal to you in the name of humanity to save us. she collapsed on the floor of the iraqi parliament. i recently met her. anyone who sees the video of you making that speech in the iraqi parliam...

But late in the year there was a counter attack. it came from the kurds. the middle eastern ethnic minority more concentrated in the area. their fighting force the person mere georgia, backed by international air strikes succeeded in opening up a corridor to mount sinjar where thousands of yezidis were trapped. our reporter benjamin hall was there when the peshmerga faced a renewed offensive from isis. at the time the village of cojo was controlled by isis and completely inassessable. there was ...

>> weve seen firsthand the suffering of the yezidis. >> yeah. >> some horrific stories. >> yep. >> so are they the canaries in the coal mine that kind of describe what happens if isis comes to town? >> yeah. and we cant allow another yezidi yezidi. >> you were talking about the policy, and obviously it changed. it developed, it evolved. is it now degrade and destroy isil, as you call them over a period of three years? >> well you know, brett we have an assessment of the organization and how stro...

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>> translator: the shooting you hear in the background is gunfire being exchanged between us and then. i spoke to the general yesterday, commander of the peshmerga infantry. >> translator: the fight is currently going on inside sinjar city. >> he wishes his fighters were better equipped. >> translator: the weapons we received were old weapons. we need modern weapons like helicopters, and armored vehicles. he worries his forces have been armed by isis which has been armed, ined aaded aadvertently...

Was not acceptable for sale. to protect herself, she also pretended to be deaf and mute. isis took her to a building with a makeshift sign hospital of the islamic state written on the front. she spent the next 50 days in a darkroom in the basement. >> translator: we asked the women with us what happened to their babies and they told us they had been taken away. they were separating women from their babies to stop them from escaping. >> after about seven weeks in captivity, she gave birth. she ha...