Iraqi Kurdish Leader Visits Sinjar After IS Pushed Out

Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani visited Mount Sinjar after Kurdish peshmerga fighters broke a siege of the area by Islamic State fighters. Barzani, president of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region, said  peshmerga fighters have taken control of all roads leading to the mountain and have liberated the area, where thousands of persecuted Yazidis were trapped. He added that Kurdish forces will not allow any Islamic State fighters to remain in areas peshmerga can...

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