Yazidi UPDATES genocide has occurred and is ongoing

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Over 40 Humvees from North, more than 1.500 ISIL terrorists from East & West, more from South

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BREAKING: Suicide bombers have stepped up to the mountain!

The fog on Mt Shingal obscured the overview

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Ezidi resistance fighters tell ezidiPress editors in a phone conversation that ISIS terrorists have again surrounded Mount Sinjar, threatening thousands of people still located there. According to the fighters, over 7,000 people were remaining in the mountains because they rejected to leave their home and villages behind. Being surrounded by ISIS, their situation seems to deteriorate as Sinjar´s Protection Units themselves had to withdraw to Mount Sinjar.

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Mt Shingal is completely besieged by ISIL terrorists and now march forward to Sherfedîn shrine

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Ezidi fighters on Mt Shingal send farewell messages to their families....

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ÊP corresp. on Mt Shingal:

"Heavy fighting on the pilgrimage Sherfedîn.

Terrorists mobilized more units to attack again"

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Kurdish Yezidis on Sinjar mountain are now awaiting their

final hours as ISIS is launching a major assault on them

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Washington Post

Islamic State seizes two Yazidi villages as it advances on Mount Sinjar
By Loveday Morris and Mustafa Salim

Islamic State militants advanced on Mount Sinjar on Monday, seizing two villages and blocking roads as besieged fighters from the minority Yazidi sect pleaded for U.S.-led airstrikes to save them.

Yazidi volunteers who have been protecting the area for more than two months said they retreated from the villages north of the mountain after the extremists attacked in the early hours of Monday under the cover of bad weather. The Yazidis pulled back to a shrine on the mountain but said the militants were closing in — their armored vehicles visible just a few miles away.

“We have so little ammunition, and they are advancing,” said Khalid Qassim Shesho, a 44-year-old fighter trapped in the Sharfadin shrine on Sinjar. “I can see five Humvees without using binoculars. We need planes!”

The extremist gains around Mount Sinjar strike an embarrassing blow to the international campaign against the Islamic State. In August, President Obama authorized targeted airstrikes in Iraq to address the plight of thousands of Yazidis trapped there in the face of an initial militant onslaught.

The airstrikes have shown a limited ability to turn the tide against the extremists. In the western province of Anbar, the militants have seized territory and army bases, and they have the provincial capital in their sights. Overrunning Anbar would give the Islamic State a valuable perch from which to increasingly target Baghdad.

The Islamic State’s treatment of the Yazidis, considered polytheists by the militant group, has been more brutal than with other sects. Yazidi men have been slaughtered and hundreds of women captured, with the Islamic State recently admitting to buying and selling them as slaves.

The numbers of those stranded on Monday were unclear. Tens of thousands of Yazidis were displaced from the area during Islamic State’s August assault, but some remained behind in more-remote parts of the mountain that had not been seized. The Islamic State has now blocked roads that had provided an evacuation route for Yazidis stranded on the mountain with little food, water or shelter two months ago.

“We called asking for help with airstrikes, but nothing,” said Mohammad Khalil, a former Yazidi member of parliament who has been fighting alongside the 2,000-strong volunteer force in the area since late August. “Now we are all trapped, the fighters are trapped, the civilians are trapped.”

Ali Qassem, a 26-year-old from Bork, which fell Monday along with nearby Dohula, said about 300 people had remained in his village — home to 4,000 before the conflict.

He spoke from the Sharfadin shrine, where he said he was sheltering with 400 other volunteer fighters — all of whom were coming under mortar fire.

Kurdish forces also were attempting to help repel the Islamic State’s advances from an artillery position on the mountain, he said.

Vian Dakhil, a Yazidi member of the Baghdad parliament, claimed that as many as 2,000 people were trapped on the mountain on Monday.

“If Daesh reaches them, they will kill them all,” she said, using the Arabic acronym for the extremist group.

Haji Ghandour, another Yazidi lawmaker, said that although those forced to flee their villages on Monday were largely fighters, about 700 Yazidi families remain in the area, many encamped on Mount Sinjar.

“If the situation doesn’t change, we’ll see an event worse than in August,” he said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/mid ... story.html

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Most recent updates:

Update 16:25 pm: Our correspondent reports that two airstrikes have been conducted by an Iraqi army helicopter which, however, missed its targets. Meanwhile, fightings near the pilgrimage site Sharfadeen continue with an increasing severity. The Ezidi resistance fighters do not want to leave the pilgrimage site to ISIS terrorists. Since August 3 they defend the central sanctuary in Sinjar region.

Update 16:40 pm: 11 Ezidi resistance fighters have been killed in clashes near the Sharfadeen sanctuary so far. The men “fought heroically to push back the terrorists”, said an ezidiPress correspondent on the ground.

Update 18:30 pm: Massive counter attacks of Ezidi forces repelled the terrorists´ advance to the Sharfadeen sanctuary for the moment. An ezidiPress correspondent who is on the ground reports that ISIS terrorists are now mobilizing to attack the sanctuary with new forces. Ezidi resistance units are still on the alert. Further clashes in the evening and at night are to be expected.

Update 18:53 pm: Fighters of Sinjar´s Resistance Unit YBS managed to seize with the support of a YPG unit seven ISIS vehicles near Shlo which is in the immediate vicinity of Mount Sinjar.

Update 21:22 pm: ISIS terrorists have blown up the sanctuary of Quba Amadin in the south of Mount Sinjar. Our correspondent confirms the destruction.

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Kurds in Germany take to the streets to demonstrate in solidarity with the Yezidi's.

All Yezidi are on the street of Germany now !!!

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Urgent: The Sherfedin shrine was not destroyed!

Earlier info was misunderstanding during the heat of the fighting

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Breaking: First heavy airstrikes against ISIL in Shingal in these minutes!

Hopefully enough to save the THOUSANDS of Yazidis still in danger on the mountain

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NEW MAP

Islamic State offensive against Sinjar mountain in Iraq

Thousands of Yazidis trapped

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UPDATE:

US airforce is trying to target IS fighters in Şengal but

has a hard time hitting them as the weather is very bad

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BREAKING:

Heavy clashes near Sherfedîn shrine

ISIL terrorists are trying to destroy the SHRINE