of Iraq and the Levant placed Sinjar and its environs under siege. When some 50,000 Yezidis trapped on Sinjar Mountain were freed by way of a land corridor opened by the Peoples's Protection Units (YPG) and Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the majority fled through Syria and circled around the north of the Sinjar mountain range to reach Lalish and Shekhan in Kurdistan Region. See also Genocide of Yazidis by ISIL Yazidi Black Book Yazidism Yazidis in Iraq List of Yazidi holy places References Valleys of Asia Nineveh Governorate Yazidi holy places Yazidi populated places in Iraq Pilgrimage sites Kurdish words and phrases