officials say that thousands of kurdish forces backed up by u.s. air strikes are on the assault against the city of sinjar in northern iraq. according to the officials, it s thousands of those kurds against only several hundred of the isis fighters that have been holding sinjar but the problem is, they are dug in. they have dug trenches, they have ied traps so it could take some time before they take that city. now, interestingly enough, there is a small number of u.s. special operations forces who are forward deployed with the kurds to provide some advice in carrying on this ground battle, but we are told that they are well from the battlefield itself. now, the u.s. is confident that the kurds should ultimately be able to take sinjar, recapture the city, because it s probably the most capable force there in