Kurds enter Sinjar 'from all directions': Kurdistan security council

NEAR SINJAR TOWN (Reuters) - Kurdish peshmerga forces entered Sinjar "from all directions" on Friday to begin clearing the northern Iraqi town of Islamic State militants, the Kurdistan regional security council said in a tweet. Heavy bursts of gunfire could be heard inside the town, as fighters filed down the hill overlooking the town from the north, some with rocket-propelled grenades on their shoulders, said a Reuters witness. Backed by U.S. ...