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Kurds cut ISIS Latitude with the help of air strikes by US-led

Iraqi fighters of the Kurdish-backed air strikes by US-led, launched a major offensive Thursday aimed to regain control of the strategic town of Sinjar, which swept the group Islamic countries last year in the attack that caused the flight of tens of thousands of Yazidis and pushed for the first time the United States to launch the air campaign against the militants.
He said the Security Council of the Kurdish Regional hours of the start of the operation the troops were in control of a section of Highway 47, one of the most active ISIS's latitudes.
ISIS offers completely isolates the group's members in Sinjar, a stronghold of militants in Syria and northern Iraq. And Kurdish fighters also said they got the villages Gabarra, on the Western Front, and Tel Shore, Fadhelya and Qen on the Eastern Front.
Fox News US military official said the US advisers are working with Kurdish leaders in the region, but was well set from the front lines.
The Security Council said in a statement some 7,500 peshmerga were closing in on the three fronts of Sinjar. In addition to taking the city and highways, and the process of Sinjar Free aims to establish "an important buffer zone to protect the city and its inhabitants from incoming artillery."
Heavy fire broke out Thursday morning where peshmerga fighters began to approach the center of aerial bombardment. The Associated Press team saw a small American unit at the top of a hill along the front line, calling in air strikes asserts.
Carried out 24 air strikes over the past day, and hit nine tactical units armed, starting nine and the destruction of 27 areas of combat positions, among other goals, coalition forces said. Coalition aircraft have conducted more than 250 air strikes over the past month in northern Iraq.
"The forces are holding their position, waiting for reinforcements and more air strikes so that they can then move on to the city center. Airstrikes and it was very important to the process of getting to the point where it is now," said Peshmerga Brigade handsome Busal, the commander of one of the front lines.
Sinjar was captured by a group of Islamic countries in August 2014 shortly after extremists seized the second largest city in Iraq, Mosul and deadbeat in northern Iraq.
The main objective of the attack is completely cut off Interstate 47, which passes by Sinjar, linking two of the largest insurgent strongholds indirectly - tenderness in Syria, and Mosul in northern Iraq - as a way of goods, weapons and fighters. Kurdish fighters backed by the alliance on both sides of the border are now working to regain control of parts of that corridor.
"Through the control on the highway 47, which is used by Daesh for the transfer of weapons and fighters, oil is the project, and other goods that finance their operations, Alliance intends to increase the pressure ... and isolate the components from each other," said a coalition statement Thursday, referring Pachtsarha to the group in the Arabic language.
He said the Iraqi official television Kurdish peshmerga forces arrived too Sinjar mayor's office, although Kurdish officials did not confirm immediately.
Kurdish officials said clouds of smoke over the Sinjar on Thursday that make it difficult for coalition aircraft to carry out air strikes as thousands of peshmerga fighters moved into the city from the east, west and massed at the edges.
Warplanes in the US-led coalition has hit about Sinjar before the attack grew more intense raids at dawn on Thursday. But Sinjar, which lies at the foot of Mount Sinjar, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from the Syrian border, are not an easy target. One attempt by the Kurds to regain control of it stopped in December. The militants reinforces its ranks in Sinjar recently in anticipation of the attack, although the US-led coalition were not able to give details on the size of the forces ISIS.
He said, "We hear on the radio (ISIS) calling for reinforcements from Syria," Ribawar strange, a deputy sergeant on the central front line Thursday.
Group Islamic countries caused a wave of terrorism in the Sinjar area against the minority Yazidi community, and members of the old religion that views of a group of Islamic states accused of heresy and devil worship. And an unknown number were killed in the August 2014 attack, and abducted hundreds of men and women - women and enslaved because of the armed group through the territory of Iraq and Syria, and many of the men believed to have been killed, others have been forced to convert.
Tens of thousands of Yezidis fled to the mountains, where gunmen surrounded them, leaving them trapped and exposed in the scorching heat. And it pushed the crisis in the United States to launch air drops of aid to the stranded, and then on August 8, the first round of air strikes launched in what can be a beginning of effort broad coalition to fight an armed group in Iraq and Syria.
Some were rescued stranded on Mount Sinjar fighters Syrian Kurds, who scan path for the Yazidis to come down from the mountain, and crossing into Syria, then cross again to the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq. Then, in December, it managed to Kurdish fighters in northwestern Iraq to flush out militants from areas on the other side of the mountain, and open a corridor that has helped many of the remaining Sinjaris to escape. Then try these Kurdish fighters to move forward in the town of Sinjar itself, but were repulsed by the militants.
Various Kurdish militias fighting on the edge of the city guerrilla fighting for months with ISIS, and damage to or destruction of a large part of the picturesque old town and narrow streets lined with modest stone houses. Include the PKK factions in Turkey "(PKK), in the People's Protection Units based in Syria (YPG) and US-led forces Yazidis of Sinjar bills itself as resistance. The Iraqi Kurdish fighters also held other positions outside the city.