What Lies Beneath the Seizure of Sinjar?
... terrorists were still believed to be in the nearby desert shortly after the Kurds had entered in Sinjar. By denying the fight to the Kurds, the jihadists gave them the city, operating a strategic retreat as they did in Kobani in February 2015. However, ISIS subsequently lost the control of a strategic communication and supply line linking Raqqa to Mosul, two of its strongholds in Syria and in Iraq. The significance of this victory is twofold. Regarding the fight against ISIS, the seizure of Sinjar tends to split the Islamic State between the Iraqi theater on the one hand, and the Syrian theater on the other hand. Whereas the coordination between ...