If so, then maybe even what they have been reporting about Al-Khassakah is true too *** (Reuters) - Islamic State militants advanced on Iraqs Sinjar mountain on Tuesday, tightening a siege of thousands of stranded Yazidis, who called on the United States and its allies to act to avert more bloodshed. The IS militants originally attacked the area around Sinjar, in northwestern Iraq, in August. A renewed assault began at dawn on Monday, when militants driving Humvees and civilian vehicles attacked several Yazidi residential compounds, forcing the Yazidi to retreat up the mountain. We are outnumbered and outgunned. We dont know how long we can hold them off, said Ali Qasem, a Yazidi volunteer on the mountain. .... Mondays attack was one of several along the front line between IS and Kurdish forces, which runs more than 1,000 kilometres from the Syrian border to Iraqs eastern Diyala province, near the frontier with Iran. Militants disguised in Kurdish clothes tried to overrun the town of Qara Tapa in Diyala on Monday and later drove a tanker rigged with explosives into Kurdish lines in the Wana district, killing as many as 15 peshmerga, according to two officials. Wana is around 40 km northwest of Mosul, near Iraqs largest dam, which was seized by IS in August before the U.S. air strikes drove the militants back and Kurdish peshmerga retook it. ***
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