Published :Saturday, 14 November, 2015, Time : 12:00 AM View Count : 11
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