Iraq today, opening an offensive that the pentagon hopes will be a breakthrough against the islamic extremists who are occupying much of syria and iraq. Iraqi kurdish troops, backed by 36 american airstrikes, moved to retake the town of sinjar, and they cut a highway that is used by isis to carry supplies from raqqa, its stronghold in syria, to mosul, the largest city that isis holds in iraq with more than a million residents. Charlie dagata is with the Kurdish Peshmerga forces. Reporter the battle to reclaim sinjar began in the air. U. S. Air strikes pounded suspected isis targets throughout the day. Thick smoke hung over the city as isis fighters lit banks of tires to try to block the bombers visibility. Dug in on the mountain side, Kurdish Peshmerga forces searched for targets, passing the coordinates to u. S. Advisers. This is one of the forward fighting position wheres theyre helping to pick targets for air strikes. Soldiers here told us with aircraft overhead all the time, someti
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley u. S. Warplanes hammered the forces of isis in iraq today, opening an offensive that the pentagon hopes will be a breakthrough against the islamic extremists who are occupying much of syria and iraq. Iraqi kurdish troops, backed by 36 american airstrikes, moved to retake the town of sinjar, and they cut a highway that is used by isis to carry supplies from raqqa, its stronghold in syria, to mosul, the largest city that isis holds in iraq with more than a million residents. Charlie dagata is with the Kurdish Peshmerga forces. Reporter the battle to reclaim sinjar began in the air. U. S. Air strikes pounded suspected isis targets throughout the day. Thick smoke hung over the city as isis fighters lit banks of tires to try to block the dug in on the mountain side, Kurdish Peshmerga forces searched for targets, passing the coordinates to u. S. Advisers. This is one of the forward fighting position wheres the
That the pentagon hopes will be a breakthrough against the islamic extremists who are occupying much of syria and iraq. Iraqi kurdish troops, backed by 36 american airstrikes, moved to retake the town of sinjar, and they cut a highway that is used by isis to carry supplies from raqqa, its stronghold in syria, to mosul, the largest city that isis holds in iraq with more than a million residents. Charlie dagata is with the Kurdish Peshmerga forces. Reporter the battle to reclaim sinjar began in the air. U. S. Air strikes pounded suspected isis targets throughout the day. Thick smoke hung over the city as isis fighters lit banks of tires to try to block the bombers visibility. Dug in on the mountain side, Kurdish Peshmerga forces searched for targets, passing the coordinates to u. S. Advisers. This is one of the forward fighting position wheres theyre helping to pick targets for air strikes. Soldiers here told us with aircraft overhead all the time, sometimes its just five minutes from th
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