Sinjar

Sinjar, additionally called Shingal is a metropolis in Shingal District, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq close to Mount Shingal. Its population in 2013 was estimated at 88,023. The city is inhabited by Yazidis and is one of the essential agreement regions of the Yazidis. In the 2nd century A.D., Sinjar have become a army base and a part of the Roman limes, and it remained a part of the Roman Empire until it was sacked by the Sassanids in 360 A.D. At the beginning of 6th century A.D., it become inhabited by a tribe called Qadišaiē Kαδίσηυοι. It was conquered via the Muslim Arabs led by Iyad ibn Ghanm. In 2014, numerous explosions activate by means of al-Qaeda in Iraq killed masses of Yazidis in Shingal. In the path of their 2d Northern Iraq offensive in August 2014, ISIL conquered massive regions of Nineveh province.

Following the fightless break out of the Kurdish Peshmerga they seized the town of Shingal on 3 August. During the subsequent days, IS militants perpetrated the Sinjar bloodbath, killing 2,000 Yazidi men and taking Yazidi ladies into slavery, main to a mass exodus of Yazidi citizens. According to a UN file, 5,000 Yazidi civilians have been killed all through ISIL's August offensive. It is also known as the genocide of Yazidis with the aid of ISIL. The genocide should handiest occur due to the fact the Kurdish Peshmerga had fled from the ISIS and left the Yazidis defenseless.