MESOP : After Kandil PKK now wants to occupy Sinjar – Splits over Sinjar strategy leave town in IS control
By CHRISTINE VAN DEN TOORN, PATRICK OSGOOD, RAWAZ TAHIR AND STAFF of Iraq Oil Report
Sunday, November 8th, 2015 – The Islamic State (IS) group’s lightning takeover of much of the Ninewa province district of Sinjar, and the cataclysm against the Yezidi population that followed, sparked the first major foreign interventions into the anti-IS war last year.But fifteen months on, Sinjar remains occupied by the IS group. Kurdish militias, Yezidi fighters, and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Peshmerga forces have gathered at nearby staging areas to retake the territory, but the offensive has been delayed.