VIDEO: Kurdish forces battle ISIL for control of Sinjar

Kurdish peshmerga fighters say they have liberated much of the Iraqi town of Sinjar from the group calling itself Islamic State (ISIL).

Since the operation began on Thursday, the Kurds backed by US air strikes and volunteers from Iraq’s Yazidi minority, have captured more than 150 square kilometers from ISIL.

Sinjar fell last year to the group who promptly murdered and enslaved thousands of members of the Yazidi community.