Outside Sinjar News Today

They sell black market oil from around the region. theyve take anv village to the east of sinjar. we dont know the fate of how many civilians are left -- many peshmerga suggest not many. its not clear. weve seen a substantial number of peshmerga. the official count 7500 headed in that direction. while im standing here, i cant tell you precisely, theres a huge plume of smoke that must be from a car bomb or an air strike. a lot of activity here and ground changing hands. errol. >> nick paton walsh...

They have been moving towards the town of sinjar. we ourselves from the top of mt. sinjar heard the constant coalition air strikes. evidence now still today around us as they claim substantial process. the kurds say to the west of sinjar, they have taken a village called ar carbara which many say is on the route here. vitally important because many want to see it back in the yazi there, pushed out into captivity. it sat, that town, sinjar, on a vital artery, a vital road between the self-declare...

Thousands of kurdish forces are surrounding a small northern town. that up until today was 100% under isis control. [ speaking foreign language ] heres where it gets interesting. the kurdi isish troops were who the ground are getting help from coalition air strikes. that means american military planes and pilots are involved. cnn reporters in this town, called sinjar, say bombs have been exploding there for days. softening up those isis positions on the ground. getting ready for a big ground ass...

Yazidi women as slaves. >> the kurdish operation to get sinjar, the u.s. coalition is providing close air support. nick paton walsh joins us on the line from outside sinjar, and nick, youre with peshmerga fight fighters. tell us whats happening. >> reporter: were limited in terms of our exact location by joining the peshmerga. theyve said through security council, theyve taken to the west of the city, a village. its significant because its close to what many see is a strategic goal in the defens...

Make money out of the black market oil trade. now, that may be why were hearing so much coalition air power in the skies. a succession of heavy blasts. that road itself is in the distance here. i cant tell you precisely where we are, as part of being with their peshmerga forces. but those peshmerga forces have been moving in great number down towards the direction of that road and weve seen, they say the numbers 7,000, quite easy to believe, given the strength of forces we have observed here. ho...

Brutalized by the isis. the minorities there in northern iraq, many of whom were kapt i. the taking of sinjar does occur in the days ahead will be a symbolic reversal. the other hope is that -- they are partially gone already. this morning, depriving isis of a vital route between the city of mosul and iraq, and raqqa and syria. raqqa being the capital of the caliphate. american central commands have released a statement in which they echo the support. we can hear it above us, drones and jet plan...