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Sunday 14 August 2016

Kurdish forces in fresh push to capture Mosul

Kurdish Peshmerga forces launched a fresh attack on ISIS militants early on Sunday, as part of a campaign to capture the de facto ISIS capital Mosul, a Kurdish official said.

The advance began after heavy shelling and US-led coalition air strikes against ISIS forces, a Reuters correspondent reported from Wardak, 30 km (19 miles) southeast of Mosul.

The "militants" were fighting back, firing mortars at the advancing troops and detonating at least one car bomb. Clouds of black smoke rose from the area.

A Peshmerga commander said six villages had been taken from the "extremist militants" by midday.

The Iraqi army and the Peshmerga forces of the Kurdish self-rule region are gradually taking up positions around Mosul, 400 km (250 miles) north of Baghdad...
  alarabiya.net/REUTERS

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