December 2014 Sinjar offensive

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.

Sinjar offensive
Part of the War in Iraq and the American-led intervention in Iraq

Map of the Sinjar offensive
Date17–22 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
  • YPG and YBŞ cut the connection of ISIS of Raqqa and Mosul in Şengal.
Belligerents

Iraqi Kurdistan

  • Peshmerga

PKK

Rojava

  • People's Protection Units
  • Women's Protection Units

YBŞ
MLKP

Air support:

Other Support:

 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Commanders and leaders
Masoud Barzani
Murat Karayilan
Sheikh Khairy Khedr †

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Leader)

Abu Suleiman al-Naser (Replacement Military Chief)
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)
54 vehicles destroyed and 26 damaged

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.

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