Troubles in Kurdish paradise, by Matthew Schweitzer
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On 13 November Kurdish Peshmerga and Yazidi militia liberated the Iraqi city of #Sinjar. The operation ended 15 months of ISIS domination over the strategic point along Highway 47 between jihadi-controlled Mosul and the group’s de facto capital in Raqqa. It opened the possibility for advance into ISIS territory in northern Iraq — and as some analysts have argued, perhaps even to Mosul. [#st]
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