Desert Towns: Yazidi People and Body Armour

desert towns: Loaded up with sleeping bags, body armour, medical kits, a satellite phone and all the toilet paper needed to spend several days in an active war zone, we made the three-and-a-bit hour drive through dilapidated desert towns, scattered with camps for thousands of Yazidi people displaced in the ISIS genocide of 2014.9News Europe and Middle East Correspondent Amelia Adams is at the Iraqi border crossing into Syria. 9News As we drove closer to the arid Sinjar Mountains, our translator told us the Kurdish people have long had this saying we have no friends but the mountains, according to Nine News Australia. And on this day, just hours after the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces cut a deal with the Syrian government to protect their people, this saying seemed especially pertinent. To improve your experience update it here News World'It's hell' Why the risk is just too high to cross the Syrian border By Amelia Adams Europe Correspondent11 12am Oct 15, 2019Facebook Tweet Mail As the new Syrian war entered its fifth day, my crew and I - cameraman, security and a local translator - prepared to make the border crossing from where we have been based in northern Iraq, into Syria. During the journey, we heard reports from our sources in Syria that President Bashar al-Assad's forces were moving towards key towns near the border with Turkey. In this May 17, 2018, file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, shakes hands with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during their meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia. In light of their Russian-brokered agreement, which the Kurdish Chief described as choosing compromise instead of genocide, the Kurds were surrendering control of the land which they've held relatively peacefully for seven years. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.