Kurdish peshmerga forces launched a military operation on sunday morning from gwer and khazir front lines, east of mosul, liberating 12 villages from the so. The autonomous kurdish region in iraq has been keeping isis at bay since its peshmerga forces managed to stop the jihadists’ advance with the help of u.s. airstrikes in 2014.
The advance by 5,500 kurdish peshmerga and the so called zerevani special forces is first significant attempt for two years to drive isis from the nineveh plain to the east of mosul. wholly. Kurdish peshmerga forces are within five miles of mosul after days of sweeping territorial gains in the operation to free the key iraqi city from isis control. With the timeline unclear for a forthcoming us led coalition assault on the islamic state (is) stronghold of mosul, kurdish peshmerga fighters continue to ma. Kurdish peshmerga forces located at mount zardak fire toward an isis position during an operation to retake iraq's mosul, held by the militant group since 2014, on oct. 17, 2016.
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