seivan m.salim
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On the morning of 3 August, ISIL forces captured the city of Shingal as well as the Shingal area. As ISIL attacked Shingal and neighboring cities.
In surrounding villages, many residents fled immediately. According to Yazidis, ISIL fighters asked the remaining Yazidis to convert to Islam or face death, and ISIL Twitter accounts posted images of murders on individuals in the Sinjar area.
Almost 200,000 civilians, mostly Yazidis along with Shia and some Kurds, managed to flee from the fighting in Shingal city. About 50,000 of those Yazidis fled into the Shingal Mountains, where they were trapped without food, water or medical care, facing starvation and dehydration.
By August 10, Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), People's Protection Units (YPG) and Kurdish Peshmerga forces defended some 30,000 of the Yezidis by opening a corridor from the mountains into nearby Rojava, through the Cezaa and Telkocher road, and from there into Iraqi Kurdistan.
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On the morning of 3 August, ISIL forces captured the city of Shingal as well as the Shingal area. As ISIL attacked Shingal and neighboring cities.
In surrounding villages, many residents fled immediately. According to Yazidis, ISIL fighters asked the remaining Yazidis to convert to Islam or face death, and ISIL Twitter accounts posted images of murders on individuals in the Sinjar area.
Almost 200,000 civilians, mostly Yazidis along with Shia and some Kurds, managed to flee from the fighting in Shingal city. About 50,000 of those Yazidis fled into the Shingal Mountains, where they were trapped without food, water or medical care, facing starvation and dehydration.
By August 10, Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), People's Protection Units (YPG) and Kurdish Peshmerga forces defended some 30,000 of the Yezidis by opening a corridor from the mountains into nearby Rojava, through the Cezaa and Telkocher road, and from there into Iraqi Kurdistan.