Three years ago this week, ISIS killed or enslaved thousands of Yazidis.

Aeida was abducted along with her two children near Sinjar Mountain in the summer of 2014. She was among the earliest Yazidi women to escape the terrorist group’s brutal reign.

“I dream of ISIS attacking us and I run away,” she said. “Sometimes I see them arresting me. Some nights, I can’t sleep until the early morning hours because of the nightmares.”

Aeida and other women and children who managed to flee shared their experiences in our 2015 documentary.

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Children describing the sounds bombs make as they fall. Streets covered with rotting garbage. Doctors and nurses who have gone months without pay, at hospitals struggling to care for an influx of cholera patients and malnourished infants.

That’s what FRONTLINE filmmaker Martin Smith and his team witnessed in May when they became the only foreign journalists given permission to enter Yemen, the country that’s home to what the United Nations recently called the “largest humanitarian crisis” in the world.

“People are not seeing what’s going on. We’re talking thousands of civilian dead,” Smith says in Inside Yemen, a 10-minute documentary short released by FRONTLINE.

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“They’re as scared of the militias as they are of ISIS,” says FRONTLINE’s Ramita Navai after talking to Sunni civilians who have fled fighting in Iraq.

With the world’s attention focused on the battle in Mosul, Navai reports from one of the war’s hidden fronts. Her on-the-ground report examines the power of the militias fighting ISIS, concerns about sectarian violence and what’s happening to civilians in areas where ISIS has been pushed out. 

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When journalist Ramita Navai was on a reporting trip inside Iraq last year, she heard a number that struck her: 643.

That’s how many men and boys have gone missing from Saqlawiyah, an Iraqi town 45 miles from Baghdad, locals there told Navai as she filmed Iraq Uncovered, a new FRONTLINE documentary premiering Tues., March 21.

The alleged kidnappers? They’re not ISIS members. Rather, locals told Navai, they’re the militia group that drove ISIS from the town.

“They said they would give them back soon, and now it’s been four months,” one woman who fled Saqlawiyah tells Navai about her missing male relatives in this excerpt from Iraq Uncovered. “I just want them to tell me if they’re dead or alive.”

“I have 11 people missing from Saqlawiyah — my sons, brothers, husband, brother-in-law and uncle,” another woman says, crying.

In Iraq Uncovered, Navai makes a dangerous and revealing journey inside areas of the war-torn country where few journalists have gone — investigating allegations of abuse of Sunni Muslim civilians by powerful Shia militias in areas like Saqlawiyah where ISIS has been pushed out.

Follow the story in “Iraq Uncovered,” airing 3/21 at 10/9c on @pbstv & online.

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These are the soldiers of the 1st Commando Battalion. They are a special unit of Iraq’s elite Golden Division, trained for intense urban warfare. 

In the brutal battle for Mosul, the 1st Battalion is at the front line. Their job is to push into the city, killing or capturing ISIS fighters who are hiding among the local population.

They move house to house looking for ISIS. They don’t trust the civilians. Anyone could be an ISIS sympathizer.

And the civilians fear the soldiers.

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Guardian reporter Ghaith Abdul-Ahad goes inside the battle for Mosul to examine the fight and its toll, speaking with civilians, soldiers and ISIS suspects — and surviving a suicide bomb.

WATCH “Battle for Iraq” on 1/31 on @pbstv and online.

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