Witnesses speak of gunfire in northern Iraqi town seized 15 months ago by fighters who massacred or enslaved its Yazidi communityKurdish peshmerga forces bear entered Sinjar “from all directions” to start clearing the northern Iraqi town of Isis militants,the Kurdistan regional security council said on Friday. Heavy bursts of gunfire could be heard in the town, as fighters filed down the hill overlooking the town from the north, and some with rocket-propelled grenades on their shoulders,said witnesses.
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Source: theguardian.com