Slave trade: Fleeing Isis militants sell Yazidi captives to fund escape from terror group

Militants desperate to escape the crumbling caliphate have made millions of dollars to fund their flight selling back their slaves to desperate families, writes

Narin is now trying to rebuild her life, after being sold nine times (Bel Trew) (Bel Trew)

He had not dared to hope until the pixelated video on his mobile sprang into life and there she was, looking back at him, talking.

Ali, an Iraqi Yazidi man had been sent the one-minute clip of his niece from an Egyptian Isis fighter based in Deir Ezzor, eastern Syria.

It was the first time anyone in the family had seen Layla, now aged 13, since she was separated from her family three years earlier. Every one of Layla's female relatives had been kidnapped as slaves by the militants when they outran the family car as they tried to flee Sinjar in August 2014.