What Lies Beneath the Seizure of Sinjar?
... airstrikes, retook the Northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, located on the Road 47, about 60 miles from Mosul and 120 miles from Raqqa, in Syria, the self-proclaimed capital of the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL). The Iraqi Kurdish forces lost the control of the city in August 2014, during an overwhelming ... ... expansion by US airstrikes, and the subsequent creation of the US-led coalition in September 2014. The seizure of Sinjar by the Kurds highlights the key-role played by the Peshmerga in fighting the jihadists in Northern Iraq. Significantly, the US planned and carried out this operation with the Kurds ...