by Dalshad Abdullah | Dec 21, 2014 | Middle East
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Kurdish Peshmerga forces claimed to have liberated the northeastern town of Sinjar from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants, CNN reported on Saturday. A twitter account affiliated with the Kurdistan Region Security Council said...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 20, 2014 | Middle East
Baghdad, AP—Sporadic clashes between Iraqi Kurdish fighters and Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) extremists, as well as other logistics problems, are delaying the evacuation of the last Yazidis still trapped on Mount Sinjar, an Iraqi lawmaker said Friday....
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 19, 2014 | Middle East
Zumar, Iraq, Reuters—Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have fought their way to Iraq’s Sinjar mountain and freed hundreds of people trapped there by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters, a Kurdish leader said on Thursday. “The Peshmerga have managed to...
by Dalshad Abdullah | Nov 26, 2014 | Middle East
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, backed by thousands of Yazidi volunteers, are preparing for a decisive battle to liberate Mount Sinjar from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a senior Kurdish official told Asharq Al-Awsat. “Peshmerga...
by Dalshad Abdullah | Aug 21, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—The last few weeks have seen a wave of murders and kidnappings of Yazidis by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) insurgents in Sinjar and the plains of Iraq’s Nineveh province, after the militants took control of the area at the start...
