Reuters, 13/11 14:52 CET
By Isabel Coles
NEAR SINJAR TOWN
(Reuters) – Kurdish peshmerga forces backed by U.S. air strikes seized
the Iraqi town of Sinjar from Islamic State on Friday, a Reuters witness
said, in one of the most significant counter-attacks since the
militants swept through the north last year.
“ISIL defeated and on the run,”
the Kurdistan regional security council said in a tweet, using an
acronym for Islamic State. It said the peshmerga had secured Sinjar’s
wheat silo, cement factory, hospital and several other public buildings.
Iraqi Kurdish regional President Massoud Barzani also
declared victory in an offensive that could provide critical momentum in
efforts to capture the western provincial capital Ramadi, and Mosul in
the north, an Islamic State bastion.
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Source: Euronews
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