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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's picturePieter Stockmans-Friday 28 August 2015
HomeKIRKUK, 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.