Kurdish offensive in Sinjar will target crucial Islamic State highway

Kurdish forces on Thursday launched a major military offensive on the small but fierce contingent of Islamic State fighters in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar. The town is not one of the Islamic State's most important strongholds, but the highway that runs through it is arguably the militant group's most crucial supply route. Highway 47 runs from […]











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