Kurds Launch Offensive To Retake Isis Held Iraqi Town Of Sinjar Sinjar, iraq — kurdish fighters launched an assault thursday aiming to retake the isis held strategic town of sinjar. isis overran sinjar last year in an onslaught that caused the flight of tens. A major u.s. backed assault to break the link between islamic state’s strongholds in iraq and syria began thursday with kurdish forces seizing a stretch of highway and moving in on the pivotal.
Kurds Battle To Retake Isis Held Iraqi Town Cnn U.s. airstrikes back kurd offensive to reclaim sinjar from isis 01:39. sinjar, iraq kurdish iraqi fighters backed by u.s. led airstrikes launched an assault thursday to retake the key town of. Thousands of yazidis were said to have been killed in the rampage; more are held by isis as slaves, including women held in sexual slavery. but despite what peshmerga soldiers described as days of intensive airstrikes by the u.s. led coalition and thousands of peshmerga troops called in for the offensive, the possibility of a difficult fight. The sinjar offensive coincides with an offensive by u.s. backed kurdish forces in syria to retake is held areas in the southern parts of hassakeh province, across the border from the sinjar region. one major objective of that campaign is to capture the syrian town of hol, which overlooks the route connecting to iraq's highway 47. Kurdish forces, with u.s. air support, have launched an offensive to cut off a key supply route between syria and iraq for the islamic state militant group (isis), the new york times reports. some.
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