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Now playing Next Turkey Turkish pro-Kurdish leader is unharmed after his car is hit by a bullet Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition leader Selahattin Demirtas has escaped an apparent assassination attempt. The rear window of his car was found to 23/11/2015
Now playing Next Iraq Sinjar: first images show total devastation The first images from Sinjar show the Iraqi town show scenes of total devastation. An estimated 200,000 people lived in Sinjar before it was overrun 20/11/2015
Now playing Next Iraq Kurdish forces discover two mass graves after freeing Iraqi town from ISIL control Kurdish forces are to leave mass graves undisturbed in Sinjar so that experts can analyse the remains and collect evidence for a case to recognise the atrocities inflicted by ISIL on the Yazidi commun 16/11/2015
Now playing Next Iraq Kurds and Yazidi fighters drive ISIL out of Sinjar Kurdish and Yazidi fighters have regained control of Sinjar driving the ISIL occupiers out. “Sinjar Is Liberated, But How Can We Come Back?” 13/11/2015
Now playing Next Iraq Iraq: Kurdish forces launch operation to retake Sinjar from ISIL Kurdish forces launch an offensive to take back the Iraqi town of Sinjar over a year after it was overrun by ISIL militants. 12/11/2015
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