No food. No water. And as they pass the hours in the scorching summer heat, no escape for 40,000 desperate people hiding in the mountains of northwestern Iraq from the killers surrounding them on the ground below. When fighters from ISIS, which refers to itself as the Islamic State, stormed Sinjar over the weekend, the Yazidi minority who call the area home fled into the nearby mountains in fear of their lives. Some of them didn't make it. "We heard sounds of mortars and in the morning they (Islamic militants) entered Sinjar," Zahra Jardo, a Yazidi woman who escaped the violence, told Reuters. "So we fled to the mountains, and those who stayed there are now suffering from thirst. They have no water. They also took girls and raped them. They said that Yazidis have to be converted to Islam."
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About 40,000 Yazidis are hiding in the mountains of northwest Iraq
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The Yazidis fled after ISIS fighters stormed the area they call home in Iraq
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"I don't think we can ever go home," one survivor tells CNN's Ivan Watson
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An estimated 100,000 Christians have fled to Irbil in recent days
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