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 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 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 mountainside, Kurdish Peshmerga forces searched for targets, passing the coordinates to u. S. Advisers. This is one of the forward fighting positions where theyre helping to pick targets for air strikes. Soldiers here told us with aircraft
Lets get straight to this video. What more is in this video . This video is haunting and dramatic as they tend to be. A couple things different about this thing. The chanting over it is in russian. Typically its in arabic. Theres pictures of russian cities and targets so theres no doubt as to who the audience is for this video saying we are coming to you as the video says. Were going to spill blood. Russia responding to president putin. They are aware of the video and looking at it to judge its authenticity. Thank you so much. As soon as you get more from russia, more from this video as well. So in the meantime, in iraq, a major offensive in the war on isis. War planes dropping bombs, helping Kurdish Forces as they bat toll retake the key city of sinjar. Cnn cameras rolling again smack dab on the front lines embedded with peshmerga fighters. Whats key here is this map. You see this piece here. This is the map in sinjar. So this is the red area you see here. Thats the strategic town nea
Longtime Kane County Board member Barbara Wojnicki lost her bid for re-election by 11 votes in the Republican primary. She is not asking for a recount.
Kane County voters decided primary races in seven Kane County Board districts, setting the stage for the November election where 18 of the 24 districts will have contested races.