Iraq Kurds block key IS supply line in battle for Sinjar

Iraqi Kurdish forces backed by US-led strikes blocked a key Islamic State group supply line with Syria Thursday as they battled to retake the town of Sinjar from the jihadists. A permanent cut in the supply line would hamper IS's ability to move fighters and supplies between northern Iraq and Syria, two countries where the jihadists hold significant territory and have declared a "caliphate". Kurdish "peshmerga units successfully established blocking positions along Highway 47 and began clearing