November 2015 Sinjar offensive

November 2015 Sinjar offensive
	Part of the War in Iraq (2013-2017), Spillover of the Syrian Civil War, and the American-led intervention in Iraq (2014–present)
	; Map of the concurrent offensives in al-Hawl and Sinjar, on 12 November 2015
Date	12–15 November 2015 3 days)
Location	Nineveh Governorate, Iraq
Result	Kurdish and allies victory Peshmerga and PKK forces capture Sinjar and Gabara; Kurdish/Peshmerga forces cut three roads leading to Sinjar and ISIL's main Mosul–Raqqa supply route;
Belligerents
Iraqi Kurdistan; Sinjar Alliance; PKK; Rojava; Supported by:; CJTF–OIR Air support: United Kingdom; Canada; United States; MedEvac support: Iraq;	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
Commanders and leaders
Masoud Barzani; Maj. Gen. Aziz Waisi; Brig. Gen. Seme Mala Mohammed; Sheikh Alo; (Duhok region commander); Gen. Zaim Ali; (western area commander); Gen. Wahid Kovli (eastern area commander) ; Haydar Shesho; (HPŞ chief commander); Mazlum Shengal; (YBŞ chief commander); Berivan Arin; (YJÊ chief commander); Murat Karayılan; (PKK leader); İsmail Özden; Newroz Hatim †; (PKK field commander); Sipan Hemo; (YPG supreme commander)	Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi; Abu Omar al-Shishani; Mullah Ghareeb al-Turkmani; Abu Askar al-Shammary; Abu Eisa al-Azeri; Abu Omar al-Uzbeki; Abu A'isha al-Juburi
Units involved
Iraqi Kurdistan: Peshmerga; Zeravani; Sinjar Alliance: HPŞ; YBŞ; YJÊ; PKK: HPG; YJA-Star; MLKP; Rojava: YPG; YPJ; United States: U.S. Special Forces;	Unknown
Strength
7,500+	~700 (in Sinjar city)
Casualties and losses
Unknown	300+ killed ; 300+ wounded and captured

The November Sinjar offensive was a combination of operations of Kurdish Peshmerga, PKK, and Yezidi militias in November 2015, to recapture the city of Sinjar from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. It resulted in a decisive victory for the Kurdish forces, who expelled the ISIL militants from Sinjar and regained control of Highway 47, which until then had served as the major supply route between the ISIL strongholds of Raqqa and Mosul.

The offensive was code-named "The Fury of Melek Taus", in reference to Melek Taus, a figure from Yezidi religion.