"Peshmerga forces have reached Mount Sinjar, the siege on the mountain has been lifted," Masrour Barzani, head of the Iraqi Kurdish region's national security council, told reporters from an operations centre near the border with Syria on Thursday.
The assault, backed by US-led air strikes, ended the months-long ordeal of hundreds of people from Iraq's Yazidi minority, who had been besieged on the mountain since ISIL stormed Sinjar and other Kurdish-controlled parts of northern Iraq in August, he said.
- "All those Yazidis that were trapped on the mountain are now free," Barzani said, but added that the Peshmerga had not yet begun to evacuate them.
He said 100 ISIL fighters had been killed - a claim that could not be independently verified..................http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/12/kurds-retake-ground-from-isil-iraq-20141218171223624837.html19/12/14
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Plusieurs chefs du groupe Etat islamique (EI) ont été tués dans le nord de l'Irak par des frappes aériennes américaines, a annoncé ce jeudi un responsable américain....
ReplyDeleteCes morts sont "le résultat d'une série de frappes aériennes conduites ce mois-ci sur plusieurs jours", a précisé ce responsable sous couvert d'anonymat. Mais le chef de l'EI, Abou Bakr al-Baghdadi, ne fait pas partie des victimes, a encore précisé ce responsable.
"Réduire les capacités de l'EI à diriger et contrôler"
Ces frappes faisaient partie d'une stratégie visant à "réduire les capacités de l'EI à diriger et contrôler" ses troupes, a expliqué le responsable américain. Cette opération n'est pas "négligeable", a-t-il précisé, et s'inscrit dans un effort plus large pour accentuer la pression sur les djihadistes, alors que l'armée irakienne se prépare à une importante contre-offensive dans les mois à venir................En savoir plus sur http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/monde/proche-moyen-orient/irak-plusieurs-chefs-du-groupe-etat-islamique-tues-dans-des-frappes-aeriennes_1634138.html#E3KLXopCY8lbpypU.99
18/12/14
Kurdish troops open Sinjar corridor for Yazidis ...
ReplyDeleteIraqi Kurdish forces battling ISIS militants managed on Thursday to open up a key corridor so that thousands of people from the country's Yazidi minority who have been trapped on a mountain can flee, a senior Kurdish official said.
The development was an incremental step in the battle to retake the town of Sinjar, at the foothills of the mountain by the same name, which fell to ISIS militants in early August.
Backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, the Kurdish peshmerga troops, launched the operation to retake Sinjar on Wednesday. After opening the corridor, 15 ISIS militants surrendered themselves Thursday to the peshmerga, Al Arabiya News Channel’s correspondent reported.......................http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/12/19/Iraqi-Kurdish-troops-fighting-ISIS-open-key-corridor-in-Iraq.html
19/12/14
US: Kurdish Advance on Sinjar Is ‘Promising’
ReplyDeleteU.S. and coalition war planes have been focusing their fire power in the area of Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq, trying to boost an advance by Kurdish forces on an area held for months by the group known as the Islamic State. The initial success has both Kurdish and American officials hoping the campaign is a sign of things to come. VOA's Jeff Seldin reports from the Pentagon. ..............VIDEO...................http://www.voanews.com/media/video/us-says-kurdish-advance-on-sinjair-is-promising/2566953.html
19/12/14
Las fuerzas kurdas liberan la ciudad de Sinyar, asediado por el Estado Islámico...
ReplyDeleteLas tropas del Kurdistán iraquí liberaron este sábado la ciudad de Sinyar, asediado por el Estado Islámico (EI).
Según un corresponsal de Sputnik, las fuerzas kurdas "peshmerga" reiniciaron una operación a gran escala contra los combatientes del EI y entraron en la ciudad de Sinyar.
El comandante de las fuerzas kurdas en la región, Zaim Alí, dijo que peshmergas lanzaron un ataque decisivo contra las posiciones del EI................http://mundo.sputniknews.com/orientemedio/20141220/1032661067.html
20/12/14