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  • Sinjar massacre
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  • Sinjar massacre
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  • massacre
  • massacred
  • Sinjar
  • under siege
  • seized
  • Battle of Sinjar
  • Sinjar massacre#Refugee crisis in the Sinjar Mountains
  • 5,000 Yazidi men massacred
  • August 2014 Sinjar massacre
  • August 2014 military operation
  • ISIS assault on Sinjar
  • Siege of Mount Sinjar
  • Sinjar mountains
  • Sinjar_massacre#International_responses
  • a massacre of thousands of Yazidi
  • captured the town of Sinjar
  • efforts from Iraqi, Syrian and Turkish Kurds
  • had been conquered by ISIL in August 2014
  • killing the Yazidi population
  • Sinjar_massacre#Refugee_crisis_in_the_Sinjar_Mountains
  • opened a humanitarian corridor
  • the siege of Sinjar
  • took over Sinjar
  • when the Islamic State first attacked
  • made emergency airdrops to Yazidis who had fled to a mountain range
  • Also the Yazidi city of Sinjar was captured, prompting a massacre of its inhabitants
  • breaking Mount Sinjar siege and leading its following emergency evacuation
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  • *
  • Peshmerga
  • Sinjar Resistance Units
  • Syriac Military Council
  • Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
  • Kurdistan Workers' Party
  • Supported by:
  • 25pxPeople's Protection Units
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  • *YPGandPKK, supported by US and British airstrikes, evacuate the majority of the 50,000 Yazidis trapped on Mount Sinjar, 9–13 August
  • *ISIL captured Sinjar and executed thousands ofYazidisand abducted thousands of Yazidi women and children