kocho was defenseless against the onslaught of isis. they needed a champion, and they got one, but would it be enough? the massacre at kocho was horrifying. but more horrifying was that isis cutting a swath across the middle east repeated such atrocities wherever it went from iraqi military cadets to coptic christians. historical happenstance may have placed the kocho villagers in the path of isis. but there was one woman who wasn t going to let the world stand by and watch, not if she could help it. a member of the iraqi parliament, the land of jonah from the bible and the area being overrun by isis. many of those being slaughtered by isis were members of an iraqi
we will conduct a systematic campaign of air strikes against these terrorists. working with the iraqi government we will expand our efforts beyond protecting our own people and humanitarian missions so that we re hitting isil targets as iraqi forces go on offense. the plan was to degrade and destroy isis. but the effort would be limited to air strikes because the president foreswore the deployment of american ground troops. meanwhile the beleaguered yazidi people had been forced to flee to sinjar mountain about ten miles away from the overrun village of kocho. many of their villages had been blown up by isis after they left where isis still controls them. so they have no place to return to. thousands are still on the mountain. fox news sent benjamin hall, journalist and author of the new book inside isis to mount
but late in the year there was a counterattack, it came from the kurds, the middle eastern ethnic minority who are concentrated in the area. their fighting force, the peshmerga backed by international air strikes succeeded in opening a corridor to mount sinjar where thousands of yazidis were trapped. our reporter benjamin hall was there when the peshmerga faced a renewed offensive by isis. at the time the village of kocho was controlled by isis and completely inaccessible. but there was plenty of action around the nearby yazidi ancestral capital of sinjar city. we ve just heard that isis attacked in places where we were just were an hour ago. right up on the front line in sinjar city about 700 meters from here. sounds as if one man has lost a leg and an arm. not sure he s going to make it. translator: the shooting that you hear in the background is gunfire being exchanged between
jayvee team. we will conduct a systematic campaign of air strikes against these terrorists. working with the iraqi government we will expand our efforts beyond protecting our own people and humanitarian missions so that we re hitting isil targets as iraqi forces go on offense. the plan was to degrade and destroy isis. but the effort would be limited to air strikes because the president fore swore the deployment of american ground troops. meanwhile the beleaguered yazidi people had been forced to flee to sinjar mountains about ten miles away from the overrun village of kocho. many of their villages had been blown up by isis after they left where isis still controls them. so they have no place to return to. thousands are still on the mountain. fox news sent benjamin hall, journalist and author of the new
but late in the year there was a counterattack, it came from the kurds, the middle eastern ethnic minority who are concentrated in the area. their fighting force, the peshmerga backed by international air strikes succeeded in opening a corridor to mount sinjar where thousands of yazidis were trapped. our reporter benjamin hall was there when the peshmerga faced a renewed offensive by isis. at the time the village of kocho was controlled by isis and completely inaccessible. but there was plenty of action around the nearby yazidi ancestral capital of sinjar city. we ve just had isis attack in places where we were just an hour ago right up on the front line in sinjar city about 700 meters from here. sounds as if one man has lost a leg and an arm. not sure he s going to make it. translator: the shooting that you hear in the background is