EXCLUSIVE: A day on the front line with the Peshmerga in Iraq
After months of stalemate, a large-scale Peshmerga offensive has driven IS out of 10 villages assisted by US volunteers and airstrikes
General Wasta Rasul, coordinating the attack on the field (MEE/Baram Maaruf)
Pieter Stockmans-Friday 28 August 2015
KIRKUK, Iraq - The frontline between Kurdish Peshmerga forces and the Islamic State (IS) group in northern Iraq has hardly budged for months, but that all changed on Wednesday morning.
After months of stalemate, a large-scale Peshmerga offensive has driven IS out of 10 villages assisted by US volunteers and airstrikes
General Wasta Rasul, coordinating the attack on the field (MEE/Baram Maaruf)
Pieter Stockmans-Friday 28 August 2015KIRKUK, Iraq - The frontline between Kurdish Peshmerga forces and the Islamic State (IS) group in northern Iraq has hardly budged for months, but that all changed on Wednesday morning.