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Iraq News - Dec 23, 2014

By bartolo - Posted on 23 December 2014

Kurds push offensive to retake Sinjar town from ISIS after breaking a siege of a mountain where Yazidis had been trapped for months - NPR

VIDEO: Iraq Kurd chief hails advances in Sinjar anti-jihadist battle - AFP

VIDEO: Kurds, Yazidis blast their way into Sinjar town - Reuters

VIDEO (Kurdish): Raw and longer version of the video above - YouTube

Mass grave of 70 Yazidis, including women and children corpses, found in Sinjar region - ekurd

PKK, YPG forces play key role in freeing Sinjar - Kurdpress News Aganecy

US Coalition Destroys IS Targets Near Sinjar - VOA

Australian Super Hornets strikes helped turn back Isis fighters at Mount Sinjar - The Guardian

Iraqi Air Force, In Combat Debut, Assists Peshmerga, Coalition In Mission To Push ISIS Back From Mount Sinjar - ibtimes.com

Islamic State Once Again Blockades Iraq’s Baiji Oil Refinery - Latin American Herald Tribune

Iraqi army retake military airbase outside Tal Afar - Firstpost

Rudaw source: ISIS governor of Mosul seriously wounded, not killed - Rudaw

Pentagon to deploy additional 1,300 military advisers to Iraq next month - Army Technology

Task force denies reports U.S. engaged in ground combat with Islamic State - The Tampa Tribune

Senator Pat Roberts sees progress against Islamic State in Iraq - The Kansas City Star

Czech Sends 5000 anti-tank missiles to Peshmerga Forces - BasNews

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Amnesty: ISIS has forced 'thousands' of kidnapped girls into sexual slavery - Daily Mail Online

REPORT: Escape from hell – Torture, sexual slavery in Islamic State captivity in Iraq - amnesty.org

VIDEO: Yazidi Women Recount Shocking Trauma of Sex-Slavery Under The Islamic State - BBC

VIDEO: Yazidi women bought and sold by ISIS - CNN

Isis in Iraq: Yazidi girls killing themselves to escape rape and imprisonment by militants - The Independent

Isis: Germany to open trauma centre for sex slave women raped by militants - ibtimes.co.uk

IS Militants Use Sex to Lure Recruits -VOA

Isis supporters 'offering cash to British girls as young as 14 to become jihadi brides in Syria' - The Independent

ARCHIVE: ISIS publishes manual telling fighters how to buy, sell and abuse captured women - Daily Mail Online

ARCHIVE: Text of the Islamic State (ISIS) manual entitled entitled 'Questions And Answers On Taking Captives And Slaves’ - memrijttm.org

ISIS reportedly ‘executes 100 deserters’ in Syria’s Raqqa - Al Arabiya News

ISIS arrests ‘extremists’ accused of plot against group - Al Arabiya News

ISIS Finds Man Guilty of Homosexuality – Executes By Hurling Off Roof (PHOTOS) - viral.buzz

ISIS release photos of a man having his hand amputated for theft - Daily Mail Online

Islamic State (ISIS) publishes penal code, releases list of “Qur’anic punishments” - jihadwatch.org

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