Sinjar, Iraq - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Sinjar, Iraq Index / Locations Transcripts Neil Eggleston ...minority, the Yazidis, at Mount Sinjar , and they're about to wipe them out... ...the pickup trucks are racing to Mount Sinjar , so I had to decide whether Article I... Rumana Ahmed ...if you remember the incident in Mount Sinjar when a lot of the Syrians were stuc... ...action to intervene around Mount Sinjar to help out over there. There are a lo... Hadi Pir ...called Khanasur, which is part of Sinjar . I finished my elementary, secondary... ...care of two Yazidi shrines, one in Sinjar and one in Lalish, the Yazidi hol... ...the US Army left our areas, and left Sinjar and most of West Nineveh, the Arm... ...was basically about lack of services in Sinjar and why nobody cares. It's just becaus... ...to the genocide that occurred in Sinjar . I think, for many Westerners, th... ...Afar. Tal Afar is a big town, between Sinjar and Mosul, and it's all Turkmen, bot... ...and Shia. The Shia all run away to Sinjar , and the Yazidis house them. They pu... ...homes, anywhere they could find. From Sinjar , then they decided to go to the south... ...actually—through Rabia, through Sinjar . They killed four Yazidi men. We had ... ...the pen, and then I told him, Here is Sinjar . It's just a matter of time when the... ...time when they would decide to attack Sinjar . He put us in contact with som... ...learning about what was going on in Sinjar , as the world was seeing what wa... ...world was seeing what was happening in Sinjar , can you describe how you then decide... ...happened? Yes. Again, in south of Sinjar , they start attacking villages fro... ...is going to die in the mountain [Mount Sinjar ] after they run to the mountain. I... ...with your friend who had fled to Mount Sinjar . How were other people in the Yazid... ...bring action, to what was going on in Sinjar ? Not at all. None of us knew what w... ...There was a marker. I just draw Sinjar mountain, Iraq-Syrian border, and I wa... ...border, and I was like, “This is Sinjar . This is Kurdistan region. This i... ...the group that came to be known as the Sinjar Crisis Management Team, were gettin... ...would probably not be bombing places in Sinjar . It's hard. We don't have force... ...says that the siege of Mount Sinjar has been broken and the defens... ...Hagel, talks about the siege of Mount Sinjar as being over. What was your sense fro... ...say, most of the places that we, as the Sinjar Crisis Management Team, provided the... ...created this, and said, “Oh, we are Sinjar Crisis Management Team. We are just ... ...ask us, Who are you? “We are part of Sinjar Crisis Management Team. Yes, there ar... ...was focused on. As that period as the Sinjar Crisis Management Team ended, at th... Show more... Brett McGurk ...by ISIS. They're on top of a mountain, Sinjar Mountain. ISIS and the team of Sinja... ...Sinjar Mountain. ISIS and the team of Sinjar has already separated the men and th... ...and that we had to save these people on Sinjar Mountain. Which we did. So that night... ...minister when we did the air strikes on Sinjar Mountain. And I was a believer that w... ...2014? You know, the fall of Mosul, the Sinjar offensive—I mean, to what extent, jus... Martin Dempsey ...they came out of Syria, they seized Sinjar Mountain. You may remember that. The... Ben Rhodes ...drove them onto this mountain, Mount Sinjar . Basically, that was a mass-atrocit... ...they had just had with people on Mount Sinjar who were describing these dir... ...of “Here's where the people are on Sinjar —” because they were talking to the... ...to save the Yazidis on Mount Sinjar and to save the Mosul Dam. That's it... John Kerry ...whole bunch of Yazidis on top of Mount Sinjar who were about to be wiped out in ... Related Topics go to the Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa go to the Transition Transition go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns go to the Asia Rebalance Asia Rebalance go to the Counterterrorism Counterterrorism