Though the presence of PKK, YPG and the Yezidi militias participating in the Sinjar Alliance has been covered by Iraqi Kurdish TV broadcaster Rûdaw, both Iraqi Kurdish prime minister Nechirvan Barzani and president Massoud Barzani claimed the capture of Sinjar exclusively for the KRG's Peshmerga forces. Haydar Shesho, commander of the Protection Force of Sinjar (HPŞ), who before had been allied with the KRG peshmerga, warned of a "war over flags" and referred to the next battle being "the abolition of the one-party dictatorship".
