Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Isabel Coles NEAR SINJAR TOWN, Iraq (Reuters) - Kurdish forces who have launched an offensive to retake Sinjar from Islamic ...

A volunteer from the Yazidi sect who have joined the Kurdish peshmerga forces stand in the street in the town of Sinjar, Iraq November 16, 2015. Before it was overrun by Islamic State, Sinjar and the ...

U.S.-backed forces captured the strategic ISIS-held town of Sinjar on Friday after a day of battling the extremists. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

The U.S.-led coalition’s recent offensive in Iraq’s Sinjar Mountain, supported by Kurdish Peshmerga forces, represents a much-needed tactical victory against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ...

On May 2, clashes broke out between the Iraqi Army and the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBS), a Yezidi armed group established to defend Iraq’s Sinjar region from ISIS in 2014. Initial reports have ...

Sinjar is important because of Highway 47, which lies alongside the town and links the Islamic State group's two biggest strongholds - Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in northern Iraq. The 120 kilometer (75 ...

SINJAR, Iraq -- American war planes hammered the forces of ISIS in Iraq Thursday, opening an offensive the Pentagon hopes will be a breakthrough against the Islamic extremists occupying much of Syria ...

Over the summer, the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham, newly arisen from the Syrian desert, swept into the Iraqi city of Sinjar and vowed to wipe out the Yazidis, a tiny religious sect that makes its ...

Prior to the 2003 Iraq war, most pundits placed their bets on Kirkuk becoming Iraq’s flashpoint: Kirkuk, after all, was not only a multi-ethnic and multi-sectarian city that had suffered waves of ...

There is growing fear in Iraq of a potential Turkish military incursion to drive the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) out of Sinjar, a contested area in the country’s north. Such a move would prove ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Kurdish Iraqi fighters launched a long-awaited offensive to retake the strategic town of Sinjar from the Islamic State group and in the first hours of the battle Thursday seized control ...