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They sell black market oil from around the region. they've take anv village to the east of sinjar. we don't know the fate of how many civilians are left -- many peshmerga suggest not many. it's not clear. we've seen a substantial number of peshmerga. the official count 7500 headed in that direction. while i'm standing here, i can't tell you precisely, there's 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, we'll let you go at this point so you can continue to work to gather for information. our c...

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-declared caliphate capital ar raqqar, syria. many, including the coion, central command actually, pentagon ...

Thousands of kurdish forces are surrounding a small northern town. that up until today was 100% under isis control. [ speaking foreign language ] here's 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 assault. their mission, cut off isis. cut off their supplies in syria. and eventually take that town b...

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, you're with peshmerga fight fighters. tell us what's happening. >> reporter: we're limited in terms of our exact location by joining the peshmerga. they've said through security council, they've taken to the west of the city, a village. it's significant because it's close to what many see is a strategic goal in the defensive, and that is the route known as 47 that runs through sinjar,

Make money out of the black market oil trade. now, that may be why we're hearing so much coalition air power in the skies. a succession of heavy blasts. that road itself is in the distance here. i can't 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 we've seen, they say the numbers 7,000, quite easy to believe, given the strength of forces we have observed here. hopes high in kurdish official's hearts perhaps this could be a matter of days, perhaps hours. but ...