Alwaght- Yezidi fighters repelled ISIS offensive in Iraq’s western areas of Sinjar on Saturday, killing and injuring dozens of terrorists, local and official sources said.
Iraqi-based Ara News cited Iraqi official sources asb saying that at least 32 ISIS terrorists have been killed in clashes with Yezidi fighters and allied groups in the Sinjar in Nineveh Province.
The terrorist group attacked Yezidi areas in a bid to recapture positions in western Sinjar it lost earlier, according to local sources.
“The Yezidi fighters and allied Arab group of Nawader al-Shammar have pushed ISIS back after clashes in the western suburbs of Nineveh,” Iraqi MP and representative of the Nineveh province, Abdul Rahim al-Shammari, said in an official statement on Saturday.
The MP pointed out the local forces dealt heavy blow to terrorist group in manpower and equipment.
Speaking to ARA News in Sinjar, Saleh Jimmeh, member of Sinjar Resistance Units said that military confrontations continue between the local forces and ISIS terrorists, especially in the areas near Baaj and Tal Afar.
The ISIS terrorist forces have captured Sinjar in august, 2014 by carrying out suicidal operations and after retreat of the Peshmerga forces from the town. ISIS committed a big crime in Sinjar as it slaughtered hundreds of Yazidi Kurds and enslaved thousands of Yazidi women from the town. After several months of planning for regaining Sinjar from the terrorists, the liberation operation has begun at 7 a.m on Thursday November 12. About 7,500 Peshmerga forces along with other Kurdish militia forces, with the coalition’s airstrikes support, have taken part in the operation.
After ISIS departure, the Kurdish forces have discovered several mass graves in Shingal. Most of the victims were women and children from the Yezidi minority. Specialized teams, that have been inspecting traces of the people disappeared during the group’s rule over the Yezidi-populated region, have so far discovered five mass graves belonging to Yezidi civilians.
