ARBIL, Iraq: Iraqi Kurdish forces on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) launched a broad offensive backed by mass bombing from US-led coalition warplanes to retake the northeastern Sinjar area from the Islamic State group.
In neighboring Syria, the bodies of 230 people from a tribe that rose up against the jihadists in the Deir Ezzor region have been found in a mass grave, a monitoring group said.
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