Islamic State’s hold on Iraq’s largest dam has been broken by Kurdish forces, who are now in near complete control of the dam.
Kurdish troops launched the operation to recapture the Mosul dam on Sunday morning, with the support of US air strikes. The US said its air strikes hit 19 IS vehicles and a checkpoint around the dam on Sunday.
AP quoted an unnamed Peshmerga officer, who explained the importance of the dam.
"It is very important for the life in this area, for drinking water, for agriculture and other things. The other important thing, which is more important, is that if ISIS [IS] blows up this dam, then Mosul, Baghdad and other places will be damaged and will no longer exist."
The British Prime Minister David Cameron on Sunday urged greater action to stop the advance of IS militants, as reports emerge of the massacre of hundreds in Iraq and Syria.
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