11-14-2015, 04:51 PM
In other news,
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iraqi-town-of-sinjar-liberated-from-is/ar-BBmXcKx?ocid=spartandhp
It's starting to look as if just about everyone has had enough of the IS.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iraqi-town-of-sinjar-liberated-from-is/ar-BBmXcKx?ocid=spartandhp
Quote:IS killed and enslaved thousands of Yazidis after seizing the town.
Some 7,500 Iraqi Kurdish fighters, backed by Yazidi militias and Turkish Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels are taking part in the offensive.
Quote:[The offensive to retake Sinjar began at dawn on Thursday backed by US-led coalition air strikes.
Kurdish and Yazidi forces closed in on three fronts after coalition warplanes bombed IS positions, command-and-control facilities and weapons stores.
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Hussein Derbo, the head of a Peshmerga battalion made up of 440 Yazidis, told Reuters: "It is our land and our honour. They [IS] stole our dignity. We want to get it back."
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It's starting to look as if just about everyone has had enough of the IS.
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