It's dawn in Sinjar and the only sounds are the footsteps of guards patroll...
SINJAR, Iraq - It’s dawn in Sinjar and the only sounds are the footsteps of guards patrolling a golden-domed shrine on a hill overlooking a vista of collapsed rooftops.
The physical devastation is extreme, but it is not the city’s only challenge. Caught in a power tussle between Iraq’s central government and the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government, the city also struggles with a political impasse. The Yazidis, 3,000 of whom where killed in an onslaught described by the United Nations as genocidal, say nearby Sunni Arab villages and townspeople aided the jihadists.
These included a Shi’ite paramilitary force, the Popular Mobilization Units known as PMU, as well as the national army and the police.
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