Sputnik - The United States is committed to expelling the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) from the Iraqi city of Sinjar, but the effort will have to await the liberation of Mosul from Daesh, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Jonathan Cohen stated on Wednesday. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) The PKK enjoys support ofethnic Yazidis inSinjar, forhaving provided ...

Izadis in Iraq's Kurdistan region and across the world have held vigils to mark the second anniversary of Daesh massacre in the town ofSinjar, and call for the release of those still being kept as slaves. Scores of people gathered at Sharafadeen Shrine on the outskirts of Sinjarnorthwest of Baghdad on Wednesday,calling for international help ...

Iraqi officials say they have found three new mass graves in the countrys northern town of Sinjar, weeks after it was recaptured from Daesh terrorists operating in the region. Qasim Simo, the head of security in Sinjar, said on Sunday that the three gravesfound over the weekend contained 80 to 100 bodies,thought to be those ofmembers of Iraqs Kurdish ...

Alwaght- Iraqi Kurdistan region's Security Council has announced on its Twitter on Friday that the Peshmerga forces entered Sinjar region. Sinjar is a region mostly populated by Kurds and located in northeastern Iraq. It is historically inhabited by Yazidi Kurds, but minorities from Assyrians and Sunni Arabs also live in the region. Administratively,...

A mass grave with the remains of up to 80 Yazidi women, executed by Islamic State, has been discovered on the edge of Sinjar in Iraq. The UN says abuses against the Yazidi minority, who the jihadists deem devil-worshippers, may constitute an attempted genocide. Officials found the site of the mass grave of young women enslaved by Islamic State (IS,...

[caption id="attachment_147358" align="alignright" width="141"] The file photo shows ISIL terrorists executing a group of people in Iraq.[/caption] Takfiri ISIL militants have executed more than 50 people in Iraqs Nineveh Province, local sources say. According to the sources, the mass execution took place in the town of Sinjar on Friday. The victims ...

The ISIL terrorist group has kidnapped at least 70 people in a village in Iraqs northern province of Nineveh, local sources say. The kidnappings took place in a village near the town of Sinjar, with sources saying that the Takfiri militants seized tribesmens vehicles and weapons to prevent possible attacks on their strongholds. Earlier, militants ...

Takfiri ISIL militants have kidnapped up to 3,000 women and girls from the Izadi community in northern Iraq over the past two weeks, Amnesty International says. Donatella Rovera, the Amnestys senior crisis response adviser, said the kidnappings took place in villages east of Mount Sinjar, where people have taken up arms against the ISIL terrorists....

[caption id="attachment_111832" align="alignright" width="262"] The dam at Mosul, pictured here in 2007, lies 225 miles northwest of Baghdad and has been under control of militants from the group calling itself Islamic state since earlier this month. Associated Press[/caption] The U.S. targeted Sunni militants positions nearIraqs largest dam in a ...

Iraqs Kurdish officials say ISIL Takfiri militants have massacred around 100 members of the Izadi minority in a village in the north of the country. The militants are also believed to have kidnapped women and girls in the village of Kocho, 45km (30 miles) from Sinjar in northern Iraq. Officials of Iraqs Kurdistan Regional Government say the atrocities ...

[caption id="attachment_111360" align="alignright" width="253"] Displaced Yazidis crossing the Iraqi-Syrian border at the Fishkhabur crossing, in northern Iraq, on Wednesday. Thousands who had been besieged have escaped. Credit Ahmad Al-Rubaye/Agence France-Presse Getty Images[/caption] WASHINGTON Defense Department officials said late Wednesday ...

[caption id="attachment_110847" align="alignright" width="208"] U.S. F/A-18 fighter jets take off for mission in Iraq from the flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, in the Persian Gulf, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. U.S. military officials said American fighter aircraft struck and destroyed several vehicles Sunday that were part ...

[caption id="attachment_110910" align="alignright" width="203"] Members of the Yazidi minority, driven from their homes in northern Iraq by Sunni militants, headed toward the Syrian border, on the outskirts of Mount Sinjar. Credit Rodi Said/Reuters[/caption] WASHINGTON Four days of airstrikes have slowed the progress of Sunni militants laying siege ...

[caption id="attachment_110320" align="alignright" width="241"] Pallets of bottled water are loaded on board a C17 transport plane for an airdrop to Iraqi refugees. Photograph: Sgt Vernon Young/US Air Force/EPA[/caption] WASHINGTON The United States on Saturday continued its double-barreled efforts to address the crisis in Iraq, as three American ...

Members of minority Yazidi sect face slaughter if they go down and dehydration if they stay, while 130,000 fled to Kurdish north Tens of thousands of members of one ofIraq's oldest minorities have been stranded on a mountain in the country's north-west, facing slaughter at the hands of jihadists surrounding them below if they flee, or death by dehydration ...

[caption id="attachment_109596" align="alignright" width="234"] Members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (file photo)[/caption] The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has called on all Kurds to stand up to and fight the ISIL Takfiri terrorists operating inside Iraq. The PKK said in a statement released on Monday that all Kurds in the north, east, south ...

[caption id="attachment_109571" align="alignright" width="249"] Iraqi women and children who have fled ISIL violence in Iraq, July 11, 2014[/caption] The United Nations (UN) says that tens of thousands of Iraqis who have been forced to flee ISIL terror in the northern town of Sinjar are currently surrounded by the members of the terrorist group. According ...

Takfiri ISIL terrorists have captured three small towns in northern Iraq after driving Kurdish security forces out of the towns. The militants on Sunday seized the towns of Sinjar and Wana, near the city of Mosul, which is also controlled by the ISIL terrorists A Kurdish official and several other sources said that the terrorists had destroyed ...