Iraq Kurds enter Sinjar in major anti-IS drive

Iraqi Kurdish forces entered Sinjar Friday in a major operation backed by US-led strikes to retake the town made infamous by the Islamic State group's massacre of members of the Yazidi minority. The operation, which is led by the autonomous Kurdish region's peshmerga forces and also involves Yazidi fighters, had already succeeded in cutting a key jihadist supply line running past the town to neighbouring Syria. The supply line is strategically important, but retaking Sinjar, where IS carried out