Stacey on the Frontline: Girls, Guns and Isis | Stacey Dooley

Duration: 44'29''

Synopsis

Stacey Dooley embeds herself on the frontline with the extraordinary all-female Yazidi battalion, who are fuelled to take revenge against Isis.

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