Battle for Sharaf ad-Din

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Battle for Sharaf ad-Din
date from October 20th to December 20th, 2014
place Ninawa Governorate , Iraq
output Kurdish victory
Parties to the conflict

Flag of Kurdistan.svg Kurdistan Autonomous Region
Allies:
HPŞ
YBŞ

Flag of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant2.svg Islamic State

Commander

Qasim Şeşo
Heydar Schescho
Dawid Jindy

Troop strength
2000

The battle for Sharaf ad-Din (or Sherfedîn ) was a 3-month battle on October 20, 2014 between the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) and Kurdish Peshmerga civil brigades with local Yazidis. The place of the battle is the pilgrimage site Sherfedîn , located on the Jabal Sinjar ridge in the Ninawa governorate in northwest Iraq.

At 3 a.m. on October 20, 2014, the IS militias advanced to several places around the Jebel Sinjar. Eyewitnesses report that 40 Humvees were deployed during the advance. The IS militias were able to advance quickly and encircle the defenders in the pilgrimage site of Sherfedîn . For the religious minority of the Yazidis , Sherfedîn is the second most important pilgrimage site. According to Yazidi statements, one hundred Yazidi fighters died on October 20 as part of the major offensive. The Yazidi vigilante groups had been waiting for a promised relief attack by the Peshmerga for days . Both the escape and possible air support for the anti-IS alliance were hindered by days of rain. On October 22nd, the Yazidi defenders published a video showing the German-speaking fighter Yassir Qasim Khelef. The video is an appeal for help to the world and reports that the Yazidi vigilantes only hold the position in the mountains and in the pilgrimage site, the IS militias are only 3 km away from the pilgrimage site.

On the morning of October 25, Kurdish forces succeeded again in taking the city of Zumar about 50 km northeast of the Sinjar Mountains . The defenders, with the support of the Peshmerga , were able to keep the front line stable until the end of October . On November 1, it became known that the Peshmerga had launched an offensive to liberate the city of Sinjar . The capital of the district is about 10 km southwest of the pilgrimage site, on the opposite side of the Sinjar Mountains.

In December 2014, the Peshmerga launched a major attack against IS in the region and were able to liberate most of the regions within a few days.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spiegel: IS attack on Yazidis in Northern Iraq: Encircled, extradited, desperate , accessed on October 20, 2014
  2. ↑ n24: The Drama about the Forgotten City , accessed on October 21, 2014
  3. ^ Rhein-Zeitung: German Yezidis fighters in desperate video: Send air support! , Accessed on October 23, 2014
  4. ↑ APA: Kurds are pushing IS again in Kobane , accessed on October 25, 2014
  5. ↑ Hasnain Kazim: German Yazidis Fighter in Northern Iraq: "The world just has to help us". Spiegel Online , October 31, 2014, accessed November 2, 2014 .
  6. ↑ dpa: Kurds fought back another IS attack on Kobane. Der Standard , November 1, 2014, accessed November 1, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Terrorist group: ISIS militia is said to have executed more than a hundred "deserters". In: Spiegel Online . December 20, 2014, accessed June 10, 2018 .
  8. ↑ http://derstandard.at/2000007591724/Kurden-schlugen-erneuten-IS-Angriff-auf-Kobane-zurueck
  9. ^ NDR travel report on Northern Iraq ( Memento from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 36 ° 25 '46 "  N , 41 ° 52' 6.3"  E