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16:05 17/12/2014
Iraq Kurds launch Sinjar offensive after coalition airstrikes
Kurdish forces launched an operation to retake the town of Sinjar in northwestern Iraq early Wednesday after heavy coalition airstrikes on ISIS positions in the area overnight, Kurdish security officials said, according to Reuters.
If the peshmerga succeed in recapturing the town, it would open up a corridor to Sinjar mountain, where hundreds of minority Yazidis have been besieged by ISIS militants since August.
It would also be a symbolic victory for the Kurds, whose reputation as fearsome warriors was bruised after ISIS overpowered the peshmerga in Sinjar and killed or captured hundreds of Yazidis.
"At 8:00 this morning the ground offensive began to liberate Sinjar town," said one official in the region's Security Council, adding that coalition planes had pounded the area for several hours beforehand.
"There's evidence that a lot of IS fighters abandoned their weapons and fled the area."
Several Kurdish security officials gave similar accounts.
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