![]() ![]() ![]() The onslaught began in the south, ISIS convoys arriving in the Yezidi villages of Girzerik and Siba Sheikhkhedir, outfitted with plunder from the Iraqi military. On 3 August 2014, ISIS attacked Sinjar before dawn. And as the local Iraqi Army division had collapsed, only a thin line of Kurdish peshmerga fighters remained to defend the area. ![]() Only a narrow, contested route north now connected Sinjar to the outside world. Their newly expanded territory included Iraq’s second largest city, Mosul, and the country’s largest oil refinery in Baiji their territory also now encircled the district of Sinjar, home to a majority of the world’s Yezidi people. By the end of June 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) had conquered over a third of Iraq. ![]()
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