Prisoners Rescued From ISIS tell about their mistreatment

Al-Jibouri was one of 69 Arab prisoners of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant freed in a military raid near the northern Iraqi town of Huwija last week, the first in which U.S. Special Operations forces were confirmed to have accompanied their Kurdish counterparts onto the battlefield.

On Tuesday, in their first interviews since being brought to the Kurdish autonomous region by U.S. Chinook helicopters, four of the former prisoners described life under the thumb of ISIL.

As members of the police, or suspected of ties to the Iraqi government or the United States, the men were beaten and tortured by militants during their captivity. It was all suddenly reversed by a military mission that happened upon them by mistake — the raid had originally been meant to free captured peshmerga fighters.