Mount Sinjar

The Sinjar Mountains ; also Shingal\Shengar Mountains; ) are a mountain range that runs east to west, rising above the surrounding alluvial steppe plains in northwestern Iraq to an elevation of . The highest segment of these mountains, about long, lies in Nineveh Governorate, currently partly administered by the Iraqi Kurdistan. The western and lower segment of these mountains lies in Syria which is about long and controlled by the de facto autonomous Syrian Kurdistan. The city of Sinjar is just south of the range. These mountains are regarded as sacred by the Kurds.