Up early, again this morning so I decided to watch the latest Stacey Dooley documentary on the iPlayer where she spent two weeks with female Yazidi fighters about to finish their training and move to the frontline.
Stacey Dooley is fast becoming one of my favourite TV presenters having enjoyed watching a number of her other documentaries. She was imbedded with an all-female Yazidi battalion in this new documentary - Frontline: Girls, Guns, and ISIS.
Many of the young woman were kidnapped from their families some of whom were killed in front of them by ISIS and were taken as sex slaves when 50,000 Yazidi fled their ancestral lands in Northern Iraq.
These young women are determined to take revenge on the so-called Islamic State for the 'largest mass kidnapping of this century' as condemned by the UN. Official figures estimate 5000 women captured with 2000 are still being held. Has the people fled many were massacred or captured.
Stacey spent a tough and moving two weeks with the battalion of brave women determined to rescue the remaining Yazidi women and seek revenge on their former captors. Female fighters strike fear into the Jihadists' hearts and they believe they won't make the heavenly afterlife if a woman kills them.
Stacey meets cadets at their training camp and then journeys with them to the frontline as they prepare to fight. Along the way, she heard their stories of trauma and hope, and discover what daily life is really like in these war zones.
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