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Peshmerga forces heave Isis away from Mount Sinjar
As many as 300 militants are believed killed as US-led airstrikes assist the Kurdistan regional government in northern Iraq
Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters arrive in Sinjar after an operation that broke the second Islamic State siege of Mount Sinjar this year. Photograph: Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/21/peshmerga-forces-isis-mount-sinjar
Isis morale falls as momentum slows and casualties mount
Erika Solomon in Beirut
Saturday, 20 Dec 2014 | 5:19 AM ETFinancial Times
Flagging morale, desertion and factionalism are starting to affect the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, known as Isis, testing the cohesion of the jihadi force as its military momentum slows.
Activists and fighters in parts of eastern Syria controlled by Isis said as military progress slows and focus shifts to governing the area, frustration has grown among militants who had been seen as the most disciplined and effective fighting force in the country's civil war.
The group hurtled across western Iraq and eastern Syria over the summer in a sudden offensive that shocked the world. Isis remains a formidable force: it controls swaths of territory and continues to make progress in western Iraq. But its fighters have reached the limit of discontented Sunni Muslim areas that they can easily capture and US-led coalition air strikes partnered with offensives by local ground forces have begun to halt their progress.
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Reuters
A masked man speaking in what is believed to be a North American accent in a video that Islamic State militants released in September 2014.
The US military announced this week that air strikes had killed two senior Isis leaders — though there has been no confirmation of the claim by the group — and on Friday Kurdish peshmerga fighters broke the jihadis' five-month siege of Mount Sinjar in Iraq.
"Morale isn't falling — it's hit the ground," said an opposition activist from Isis-controlled areas of Syria's eastern Deir Ezzor province. "Local fighters are frustrated — they feel they're doing most of the work and the dying . . . foreign fighters who thought they were on an adventure are now exhausted."
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102286754#.
As many as 300 militants are believed killed as US-led airstrikes assist the Kurdistan regional government in northern Iraq
Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters arrive in Sinjar after an operation that broke the second Islamic State siege of Mount Sinjar this year. Photograph: Safin Hamed/AFP/Getty Images
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/21/peshmerga-forces-isis-mount-sinjar
Isis morale falls as momentum slows and casualties mount
Erika Solomon in Beirut
Saturday, 20 Dec 2014 | 5:19 AM ETFinancial Times
Flagging morale, desertion and factionalism are starting to affect the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, known as Isis, testing the cohesion of the jihadi force as its military momentum slows.
Activists and fighters in parts of eastern Syria controlled by Isis said as military progress slows and focus shifts to governing the area, frustration has grown among militants who had been seen as the most disciplined and effective fighting force in the country's civil war.
The group hurtled across western Iraq and eastern Syria over the summer in a sudden offensive that shocked the world. Isis remains a formidable force: it controls swaths of territory and continues to make progress in western Iraq. But its fighters have reached the limit of discontented Sunni Muslim areas that they can easily capture and US-led coalition air strikes partnered with offensives by local ground forces have begun to halt their progress.
Reuters
A masked man speaking in what is believed to be a North American accent in a video that Islamic State militants released in September 2014.
The US military announced this week that air strikes had killed two senior Isis leaders — though there has been no confirmation of the claim by the group — and on Friday Kurdish peshmerga fighters broke the jihadis' five-month siege of Mount Sinjar in Iraq.
"Morale isn't falling — it's hit the ground," said an opposition activist from Isis-controlled areas of Syria's eastern Deir Ezzor province. "Local fighters are frustrated — they feel they're doing most of the work and the dying . . . foreign fighters who thought they were on an adventure are now exhausted."
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102286754#.
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