The Kurds should have been given modern weapons much sooner, and things like this wouldn't have happened.
Shingal offensive too late for some Yazidi Kurds
Kurdish Yazidi fighters gather on the summit of Mount Sinjar as they head to battle Islamic State militants, in Iraq, Dec. 21, 2014. Photo: AP •See Related Articles
December 27, 2014
MOUNT SINJAR, Kurdistan region 'Iraq',— Latif Alo is a Kurdish fighter in his early 40s heading toward the town of Shingal (Sinjar in Arabic) to fight. Driving along the only road leading to the town, Alo has become restless to reach the front line, where fierce fighting is continuing between Kurdish forces supported by US-led coalition airstrikes and Islamic State (IS) militants. He's on a mission, with an old BRNO rifle inherited from his father and a leather bullet vest around his waist.
"I have come here to fight Daesh," said Alo, as smoke rose from the town at the southern foot of the mountain over which the boom of airstrikes reverberated. “They took many of our girls. Our honor has been violated. I have come back here to free them." continue reading at:
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Shingal offensive too late for some Yazidi Kurds
Kurdish Yazidi fighters gather on the summit of Mount Sinjar as they head to battle Islamic State militants, in Iraq, Dec. 21, 2014. Photo: AP •See Related Articles
December 27, 2014
MOUNT SINJAR, Kurdistan region 'Iraq',— Latif Alo is a Kurdish fighter in his early 40s heading toward the town of Shingal (Sinjar in Arabic) to fight. Driving along the only road leading to the town, Alo has become restless to reach the front line, where fierce fighting is continuing between Kurdish forces supported by US-led coalition airstrikes and Islamic State (IS) militants. He's on a mission, with an old BRNO rifle inherited from his father and a leather bullet vest around his waist.
"I have come here to fight Daesh," said Alo, as smoke rose from the town at the southern foot of the mountain over which the boom of airstrikes reverberated. “They took many of our girls. Our honor has been violated. I have come back here to free them." continue reading at:
Continue reading at:
http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2014/12/kurdsiniraq302.htm?