Uprooted by IS, Iraq's Yazidis yearn to rebuild lives Cramped in a tarpaulin tent with his family of nine, Ali Mahmud remembers his spacious ancestral home in the northern Iraqi town of Bashiqa he last set foot in more than two years ago. But in August 2014 they fled in terror along with other members of their Yazidi community when Islamic State jihadists swept through the region, unleashing a campaign of murder and kidnappings against them that the United Nations called a genocide. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES