December 2014 Sinjar offensive
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The Sinjar offensive was a combination of operations of Kurdish Peshmerga, PKK and People's Protection Units forces in December 2014, to recapture regions formerly lost to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in their August offensive.
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Sinjar offensive | |||||||
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Part of the War in Iraq and the American-led intervention in Iraq | |||||||
Map of the Sinjar offensive | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Air support: Other Support: | Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Masoud Barzani[8] Murat Karayilan Sheikh Khairy Khedr † |
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Leader) | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
8,000 Peshmerga soldiers 500-800 PKK Soldiers 3,400-4,500 YPG Soldiers | 12,000 in mosul province | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
4 wounded |
~3,000+ killed (Peshmerga claim)[10] 54 vehicles destroyed and 26 damaged |
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In a six-day-long offensive, the PKK and Peshmerga took control over part of the city of Sinjar and part of the mountains which had been conquered by ISIL in August 2014, and expanded their offensive on to Tal Afar.