TAR Sinjar Apr16

PURPOSE:

• To inform the Army training community of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) occupation of Sinjar and the subsequent Kurdish retaking of the city by a variety of Kurdish forces.
• To report on tactics and techniques used by ISIL in the Sinjar area.
• To demonstrate the connectivity among the tactics, threat doctrine, and conditions present in other training materials such as the Training Circular (TC) 7-100 series.