This was the emotional moment a group of Yazidi women and children were reunited with relatives after being freed from terror in Syria.

Families wept as they hugged and kissed their loved ones, who were held as ISIS sex slaves for almost five years by terrorists who ravaged their homeland.

The victims were among thousands who were taken by ISIS militants when they stormed their communities in the Sinjar region of northwest Iraq in 2014.

Thousands of others have also been killed by the terror group in acts the United Nations has recognized as genocide.

The women and children crossed into Iraq from Syria last week after finally being released.

In the footage, one woman breaks down in tears as she holds a baby in her arms.

Another emotional scene sees a woman being carried away by a male relative as the crowd cheers.

Thousands killed

There are roughly 700,000 Yazidis in the world, with the vast majority of them concentrated in northern Iraq, in and around Sinjar.

The Yazidis are ethnically Kurdish and have kept their religion alive for centuries, despite many years of oppression and threatened extermination, such as ISIS in recent years.

Many were ISIS brides reportedly ordered to leave the crumbling town by battle-hardened husbands ready to be martyred in combat.

Tens of thousands of women and children have fled the shrinking ISIS territory in eastern Syria over the past six weeks.

The attackers killed thousands and took more than 6,000 women and children as slaves.

‘Genocide’

Yazidi groups have consistently complained that not enough has been done to find and rescue the thousands of women who were taken.

Last month the Sun Online told how another Yazidi woman held as a sex slave burned her veil after being freed in Baghouz, Syria.

Baghouz was the last ISIS stronghold in Syria, which more than 7,000 people have now fled after US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces cut off the crumbling caliphate.

President Trump said in December he would pull all 2,000 American troops out of Syria, announcing the battle against ISIS was almost over.

But the Islamic State is still widely seen by the US military as a threat — if not on the scale it once was.

Raped by terrorists

Previously, a Yazidi sex slave described how ISIS terrorists would tell the captives they had to rape them to convert them to Islam.

The unnamed victim also described how the sick thugs would grope the breasts of girls they had captured to see if they were old enough to be raped.

Her harrowing testimony was featured in the report “Trafficking Terror,” released by the Henry Jackson Society think tank.

The report also revealed that ISIS is attracting rapists and pedophiles to fight for them by rewarding them with sex slaves.

Men with a history of sexual violence and domestic abuse are believed to have joined the jihadi group because of the organization’s use of rape and slavery as a form of terrorism.

The sexual exploitation of women and children alongside trafficking helped fund the caliphate and was used to lure men from deeply conservative Muslim societies, where casual sex is taboo and dating prohibited, the report claims.