![MIDEAST-CRISIS/IRAQ-SINJAR Members of the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBS), a militia affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), disarm an improvised explosive device placed by Islamic State fighters near the village of Umm al-Dhiban, northern Iraq, April 30, 2016. They share little more than an enemy and struggle to communicate on the battlefield, but together two relatively obscure groups have opened up a new front against Islamic State militants in a remote corner of Iraq. The unlikely alliance between the Sinjar Resistance](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2018/03/RTX2DRS4.jpg/RTX2DRS4.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=pAK6SKpU)
Yazidis in Iraq's Sinjar brace for possible Turkish attack
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