SINJAR, Nov 13 : Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani announced the "liberation" of Sinjar from the Islamic State group on Friday in an assault backed by US-led strikes that cut a key jihadist supply line with Syria.
The operation was led by the Iraqi autonomous Kurdish region's peshmerga forces and also involved fighters from the Yazidi minority, a local Kurdish-speaking community targeted in a brutal IS campaign of massacres, enslavement and rape.    ?AFP