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facing and this strategic piece of highway. what s important today is the measure of success the peshmerga appear to have had had. we were with them as they move ed to the west of the city of sinjar. that sits below the mountain, which they have held for a number of weeks, but moving around to the west, they were aiming to hit that main. route that runs between raqqa and mosul. there was a lot of power being used. but also hammering further to the west of sinjar what must have been isis positions. they kept using car bombs driven by suicide bombers to try and weaken the pesh mmerga. it seemed to have had better weaponry to use to stop those cars in their tracks and coalition air power. they seem to hit that road well,
board in order to escape the incoming terrorists. nick paton walsh is on the front lines for us on this battle. he joins me on the phone. nick, as we re talking about this area u of sinjar and hearing kurd you shaish forces retaken this stretch of highway, tell me what you re seeing. reporter: what we saw earlier on today and now moved away from sinjar was peshmerga moving into the west in huge numbers. they claim 7,500. you move to the west through the rocky mountain areas there down to the highway you re referring to, off to to the distance and a lot of coalition air power we saw to the west of sinjar. must have been targeted to try to push back towards the city and keep peshmerga away. they moved further toward the east as towards sinjar city
this is a grouped of armed fighters supported by the kdp and another one, the puk. they are coming from different directions. . the forces are by different officials, but they are reliving this city of 400,000 when it was thriving. and that road, which we re talking about, highway 47 which goes east to west from raqqa through sinjar into mosul has been critically important for the isis fighters to resupply that base in the mosul region. it s a long stretch. i have been on that road several times. it is long, it is boring, it is wide open and the difference in terms of the tactics now is you have a significantly increased air power capability because we have airplanes flying and they include f-16s. they have longer loiter time on
front and center as three more candidates make it official in new hampshire. let s talk live in the cnn newsroom. and good morning. i m carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. we re following breaking news this morning on what s being called a major offensive in the war on isis. backed by a u.s. coalition air support, kurdish forces are battling to retake the key city of sinjar in iraq. a city where residents have fled from isis. cnn capturing that moment in august 2014. dozens of civilians desperately scrambling on to a military chopper in order to escape. right now peshmerga troops have managed to secure a number of villages in the area. they have also taken control of an important stretch of highway used as an isis supply route into syria. cnn is just outside of sinjar. reporter: just behind me you can see the thick black smoke