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IRAQI Kurdish peshmerga fighters said on Thursday that they had broken the siege of Sinjar mountain.
Yazidi civilians and fighters have long been trapped on the mountain by Islamic State (Isis) fighters.
The Kurdish advances topped a two-day blitz of the Sinjar region involving 8,000 Peshmerga fighters and some of the heaviest air strikes since the US started its air campaign four months ago.
Kurdish autonomous region intelligence chief Masrour Barzani hailed the Peshmerga efforts.
“Peshmerga forces have reached Mount Sinjar, the siege on the mountain has been lifted,” he said at operations centre near the border with Syria.
The peshmerga recaptured eight villages and killed about 80 Isis fighters in the initial phase of the offensive.
But they lost seven men on Wednesday in Qasreej village when they failed to stop a suicide attacker who rammed an explosives-laden armoured vehicle into their convoy.
