Part of the War in Iraq and the American-led intervention in Iraq
Map of the Sinjar offensive
Date
17–22 December 2014 (6 days)
Location
Nineveh Governorate, Iraq
Result
Limited Kurdish gains:
Kurdish forces secured the road from Zummar to Sinjar, but fail to take control of the whole of the Sinjar mountains
Kurdish forces capture a part of Sinjar city
A total of 1,295–3,000 square kilometers (500–1,158 square miles) of mostly desert and highway are recaptured by Kurdish forces[7]
YPG and YBŞ cut the connection of ISIS of Raqqa and Mosul in Şengal.
Belligerents
Iraqi Kurdistan
Peshmerga
PKK
HPG
YJA-Star
Rojava
People's Protection Units
Women's Protection Units
YBŞ MLKP[1]
Air support:
United States
United Kingdom [2][3]
Canada[4]
Australia[5][6]
Other Support:
Germany
Islamic State
Commanders and leaders
Masoud Barzani[8] Murat Karayilan Sheikh Khairy Khedr †
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Leader)
Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi (Replacement Military Chief)[9]
Strength
8,000 Peshmerga soldiers
500-800 PKK Soldiers
3,400-4,500 YPG Soldiers
12,000 in Mosul province
Casualties and losses
unknown
~3,000+ killed (Peshmerga claim)[10] 54 vehicles destroyed and 26 damaged
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War in Iraq (2013–2017)
Battles and operations
1st Anbar
1st Fallujah
1st Northern Iraq
1st Mosul
Badush prison
Camp Speicher
1st Kirkuk
2nd Northern Iraq
Zumar
Makhmour
1st Sinjar
Mosul Dam
Sharfadin
Musab bin Umair mosque
Suq al-Ghazi
Saqlawiyah
1st Hīt
Jurf al-Sakhar
Salahuddin
1st Baiji
Siege of Amirli
1st Tikrit
2nd Baiji
3rd Baiji
Dhuluiya
2nd Tikrit
1st Ramadi
2nd Sinjar
2nd Mosul
2nd Kirkuk
Al-Karmah
2nd Anbar
2nd Ramadi
2nd Fallujah
2nd Hīt
Ar-Rutbah
3rd Fallujah
3rd Sinjar
Nineveh Plains offensive
3rd Mosul
4th Mosul
Mosul airstrike
Western Nineveh
3rd Kirkuk
Hamam al-Alil
4th Sinjar
Turkish Sinjar airstrike
Tal Afar
Western Anbar
Hawija
Iraqi–Kurdish conflict
4th Kirkuk
Western Iraq
Major insurgent attacks
1st Hillah
1st Baghdad
Khan Bani Saad
2nd Baghdad
Sharaban
Ramadi
Mosul
3rd Baghdad
Miqdadiyah
2nd Hillah
Iskandariya
4th Baghdad
Samawa
5th Baghdad
1st Balad
Taji
6th Baghdad
7th Baghdad
2nd Balad
8th Baghdad
9th Baghdad
3rd Hillah
10th Baghdad
11th Baghdad
Tikrit
12th Baghdad
Nasiriyah
Foreign interventions
Iranian-led intervention
American-led intervention
Inherent Resolve
Shader
Okra
Chammal
Impact
IS genocide of minorities
Christian genocide
Yazidi genocide
Shia genocide
Turkmen genocide
IS war crimes
Mosul executions
Chemical weapons
Timeline
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
The Sinjar offensive was a combination of operations of Kurdish Peshmerga, PKK and People's Protection Units forces in December 2014, to recapture regions formerly lost to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in their August offensive.
In a six-day-long offensive, the PKK and Peshmerga took control over part of the city of Sinjar and part of the mountains which had been conquered by ISIL in August 2014, and expanded their offensive on to Tal Afar.
^"MLKP fighter: We will be at the front until Sinjar is liberated". Firat News Agency. 29 December 2014. Archived from the original on 28 January 2015. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
^"RAF air strikes in Iraq: December 2014". 22 January 2015.
^Barbarani, Sofia (21 December 2014). "Jihadists in retreat as Iraqi Kurds retake Mt Sinjar".
^"Operation IMPACT – Air Task Force-Iraq airstrikes". 25 November 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
^"Department of Defence – Air Force". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
^"Australian air strikes support liberation of Mount Sinjar" (Press release). Department of Defence. 22 December 2014. Archived from the original on 21 July 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
^"Kurdish Sinjar offensive too late for some Yazidis". Al-Monitor. Archived from the original on 29 December 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
^Cite error: The named reference Masoud_Barzani was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Alessandria Masi (11 November 2014). "If ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Is Killed, Who Is Caliph Of The Islamic State Group?". International Business Times. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
^"ISIL Casualties in Shingal Revealed". Bas News. Archived from the original on 31 December 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
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Islamic State
Masoud Barzani[8] 
Murat Karayilan 
Sheikh Khairy Khedr †
