US Secretary of State, John Kerry, expressed hope today to the progress of the Kurdish forces in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, controlled by the Islamic Jihad group status (EI), and warned that this organization "has no future".
Speaking to the press during his current visit to Tunisia, the head of US diplomacy dodged confirm or deny the alleged death of the "jihadist John" during the bombardments launched in the Syrian city of Raqqa.
"We continue to evaluate the results of Thursday's airstrike in Raqqa, but the terrorists associated with Daesh (acronym in Arabic for EI) should know this: your days are numbered and will be defeated," he said.
US aircraft on Thursday launched a special operation against Syria Mohamad Emwazi, a British citizen known as the "jihadist John" from masked appeared in several videos that supposedly ran to Western citizens on behalf of EI.
Emwazi is a symbol for many Muslims from Europe have traveled to Syria to join the jihadist group of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Regarding the Iraqi town of Sinjar, located in Kurdistan and one of the strategic locations of EI on the border with Turkey, Kerry expressed "absolute confidence that in the coming days to be released."
The prime minister of the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region, Necherván Barzani, announced today the release of Sinjar, where Kurdish sources on the ground They pointed to Efe that the city is not completely released and continuing clashes between Kurdish forces and jihadists EI.
The "Liberation of Sinjar" operation began yesterday with the participation of 7,500 fighters of the "peshmerga" fighters and Yazidis and under the direct command of the President of Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani.