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Transcripts for CNN Wolf 20151112 18:10:00

they want to go home and i think there s a feeling potentially amongst the peshmerga and the coalition backing them up that a swift and decisive victory here could perhaps turn the narrative curve of isis beginning to lose territory now. and maybe with the loss of the vial supply route and make no mistake, they don t have that road. they didn t have full control of it. maybe that might actually have a bigger symbolic impact against isis itself. wolf. i know you re very busy over there, it s a very dangerous situation. one final question. any indication these heroic kurdish fighters, the peshmerga who are closely supportive of the united states, very close to the united states, any indication they would actually take this battle, assuming they win where they are in iraq right now, around this area of sinjar, and actually move into syria itself, move towards raqqah, the so-called isis capital of that caliphate? there is no indication they want part of that fight.

Transcripts for CNN Wolf 20151112 18:12:00

the president, retired general john allen, who s been helping in terms of this war against isis, an exit interview as we like to call it. what does he say about the war going on, the latest development at sinjar? it s interesting when we sat down about a year ago, we were talking about the rescue of these yazidis from sinjar mountain and we talked about how the battle is going back to where it began. but this time, it s the kurds that are becoming among the most reliable partners in this fight against isis. take a listen. today, kurdish forces are retaking sinjar with u.s. air strike assistance. tell us about that. again, another one of those moments a year later that s really important to take stock of what s happened. you ll recall about this time last year we were all facing the horror of what was happening in the vicinity of sinjar and to the yazidi people. a year later, kurdish forces, some number of thousands of them, have launched into the

Transcripts for CNN Wolf 20151112 18:05:00

strategic city. it s a massive offensive. thousands of kurdish perg mehera fighters are leading the charge. plumes of smoke blacken the skies as coalition bombs target from the air. the strategy is attack the city from three sides. our senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is on the ground for us in iraq. he s very near to this whole sinjar area, closely following what s going upon nick, describe what you have seen because i understand it is very dramatic. from the early hours this morning, wolf, we saw an enormous column of peshmerga we followed around towards the west of the city. that s key because it seems that s where much of the advance today were made by them. their main objective, the peshmerga want to retake sinjar, want to reverse what happened to the yazidi population that happened last year when isis

Transcripts for CNN Wolf 20151112 18:09:00

larger but frankly it may be months away. remember the scenes we saw last year when isis attacked that whole sin jjar area and we saw these children basically being thrown into helicopters, yazidi children, the yazidis really assaulted by these forces. it s been a brutal situation. how important is this town sinjar in and of itself? sinjar in itself is important for a strategic region because it sits on a vital route for the coalition. they talked about the need to cut it off to prevent the flow of fighters and also the black oil trade which many say is key to isis financing but it s symbolic because of the brutality against the yazidis. remember, many of them put in captivity, slavery to some degree. tens of thousands living in mt. sinjar in the freezing cold now, close as they can be to sinjar, their hometown.

Transcripts for CNN Wolf 20151112 18:25:00

if you have better information that they re gearing up to retake the second largest city in their country mosul. i think they are actually, wolf. you have to look at it from two directions. if you draw a straight line between raqqah and mosul, that s one line of operations and it goes through the kurdish regions. the reason you don t see the iraqi army in sinjar is because that s part of the kurdish regional government. let s draw another line from baghdad to mosul from south to north. there are a lot of iraqi security forces fighting in ramadi, in baiji, mr. al abadi was just in baiji a few weeks ago and they are having extreme difficulty in those towns. they also have to capture the towns in that south to north area. they re choking isis from several different directions to attempt to get back to mosul. but this is, as we ve said many times, is going to be a long slog. what kimberly said earlier about the fight for sinjar, i think

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