Kurdish forces have made a shocking discovery in the liberated Iraqi town of Sinjar where ISIS ruled for years.
tunnel discovered by Kurdish forces
A shocking secret network of tunnels built by ISIS has been discovered under an Iraqi town of Sinjar liberated by Kurdish forces. The tunnel had about 40 underground routes, complete with sleeping quarters, electricity, sandbags, American-made bomb making tools, medicine and copies of the Koran.
a walk inside the tunnel
The tunnels were uncovered by Kurdish forces who liberated the town in north-west Iraq this month, after more than a year of Islamic State rule.
Two tunnels run for several hundred metres, each starting and ending from houses, through holes knocked in walls or floors.
shocking details discovered in the long tunnel
The tunnels are narrow and just tall enough for an adult to stand in. One section resembled a bunker, with dusty copies of the Quran, blankets and pillows.
front of the house housing the tunnel
Shamo Eado, a Sinjar commander from the Iraqi Kurdish fighters known as Peshmerga, said: 'We found between 30 and 40 tunnels inside Sinjar. It was like a network inside the city.
'Daesh dug these trenches in order to hide from air strikes and have free movement underground as well as to store weapons and explosives. This was their military arsenal.'
It would be recalled that Islamic State took control of Sinjar in August 2014, killing and capturing thousands of the town's mostly Yazidi residents. Yazidis, a religious minority in Iraq with roots that date back to ancient Mesopotamia, are considered provocative to Islam by ISIS.