Iraqi Kurds say they have secured route to besieged Sinjar mountain

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The brave Kurds could even have done more if they had had more weaponry when this first started.

Iraqi Kurds say they have secured route to besieged Sinjar mountain
Source: Reuters - Thu, 18 Dec 2014 17:38 GMT
Author: Reuters




ZUMAR, Iraq, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Kurdish peshmerga fighters have secured a route to Iraq's Sinjar mountain, where hundreds of people had been trapped by Islamic State fighters, Masrour Barzani, head of the Iraqi Kurdish region's national security council said on Thursday.

"The peshmerga have managed to reach the mountain. A vast area has been liberated," Barzani said, adding that 100 Islamic State fighters had been killed. "Now a corridor is open and hopefully the rest of the (Sinjar) region will be freed from Islamic State."

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