IS stronghold Sinjar cases

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have managed to conquer the Iraqi town of Sinjar in IS.

This was reported by Reuters.

The peshmerga began on the night of Wednesday to Thursday with their offensive in the city in northern Iraq.

Beginning Thursday said the fighters were busy pulling in Sinjar. Also the strategically important road between the Syrian al- Hasaka and the Iraqi city of Mosul captured by the Islamists. Doing to 75. 000 peshmergastrijders join the operation.

Sinjar was IS-owned since August last year. The terrorists have slain hundreds of thousands of civilians and taken captive. In the village live mostly Yazidis.