ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — A wave of US coalition airstrikes were carried out on Islamic State bases in Shingal Friday, causing heavy casualties, a Peshmerga commander has told Rudaw.
Brigadier General Ezadeen Saddo said the US coalition continuously targeted ISIS military bases to the east and west of Shingal for more than an hour.
“Due to the coalition’s intensified airstrikes, ISIS militants started to get worried,” Saddo said.
The official said due to night conditions they could not assist ISIS casualties.
ISIS forces overran the Shingal district on August 3, 2014, forcing thousands of Yezidi Kurds to flee to the mountains. Hundreds of Yezidis were killed and thousands more taken into captivity, mostly women and young girls.
