268 killed, 177 wounded, Major insurgent attacks Foreign interventions IS genocide of minorities IS war crimes Timeline The Battle of Sharafdin (or Sherfedîn ) was a 5-month-long battle from August, 2014 between the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) and Kurdish Peshmerga vigilantes with local Yazidis.

In August 2014, the temple was the site of a battle where 18 lightly armed Yazidi Peshmerga fighters under the command of Qasim Shesho successfully held off a larger and better equipped ISIL force with armored vehicles, mortars, and rockets that had attacked the shrine as part of the genocide of Yazidis by ISIL.

[3] On October 22, the Yazidi defenders released a video showing the German-speaking fighter Yassir Qasim Khelef.

[4] On the morning of October 25, Kurdish forces again managed to capture the town of Zummar, about 50 km northeast of the Shingal Mountains.

The capital of the district is located about 10 km southwest of the pilgrimage site, on the opposite side of the Shingal Mountains.