The Kurds recently launched an offensive against ISIS in northern Iraq. They specifically targeted the city of Sinjar which has been under control of ISIS for over a year. though the city has been under ISIS control many of the original Yazidi Kurds remained in the city being killed and enslaved by ISIS extremists.
Operation Free Sinjar was a classic modern siege which included cutting off the city's supply routs, Securing buffer zones to draw ISIS artillery and mortar away from civilian buildings and coordinating with American forces to launch strategic airstrikes. The militants consist of a massive coalition of kurdish forces consisting