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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. A Kurdish peshmerga officer stands in the early morning sunlight at a defensive position located on the top of Bashiqa Mountain, Iraq.<br />
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Bashiqa Mountain, towering over the town of the same name, is now a heavily fortified front line. Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions. Regular exchanges of fire take place between the Kurds and the Islamic militants with the occupied Iraqi city of Mosul forming the backdrop.<br />
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The town of Bashiqa, a formerly mixed town that had a population of Yazidi, Kurd, Arab and Shabak, now lies empty apart from insurgents. Along with several other urban sprawls the town forms one of the gateways to Iraq's second largest city that will need to be dealt with should the Kurds be called to advance on Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. A sandbagged Kurdish peshmerga defensive position on Bashiqa Mountain, Iraq.<br />
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Bashiqa Mountain, towering over the town of the same name, is now a heavily fortified front line. Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions. Regular exchanges of fire take place between the Kurds and the Islamic militants with the occupied Iraqi city of Mosul forming the backdrop.<br />
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The town of Bashiqa, a formerly mixed town that had a population of Yazidi, Kurd, Arab and Shabak, now lies empty apart from insurgents. Along with several other urban sprawls the town forms one of the gateways to Iraq's second largest city that will need to be dealt with should the Kurds be called to advance on Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_BASHIQA_19_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. As day breaks a Kurdish peshmerga fighter mans a sandbagged defensive position on Bashiqa Mountain, Iraq.<br />
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Bashiqa Mountain, towering over the town of the same name, is now a heavily fortified front line. Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions. Regular exchanges of fire take place between the Kurds and the Islamic militants with the occupied Iraqi city of Mosul forming the backdrop.<br />
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The town of Bashiqa, a formerly mixed town that had a population of Yazidi, Kurd, Arab and Shabak, now lies empty apart from insurgents. Along with several other urban sprawls the town forms one of the gateways to Iraq's second largest city that will need to be dealt with should the Kurds be called to advance on Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_BASHIQA_17_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. A Kurdish peshmerga fighter takes advantage of a cool breeze by sleeping under the stars behind his unit's defensive position on Bashiqa Mountain, Iraq.<br />
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Bashiqa Mountain, towering over the town of the same name, is now a heavily fortified front line. Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions. Regular exchanges of fire take place between the Kurds and the Islamic militants with the occupied Iraqi city of Mosul forming the backdrop.<br />
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The town of Bashiqa, a formerly mixed town that had a population of Yazidi, Kurd, Arab and Shabak, now lies empty apart from insurgents. Along with several other urban sprawls the town forms one of the gateways to Iraq's second largest city that will need to be dealt with should the Kurds be called to advance on Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. A sandbagged bunker, used an Iranian Kurdish peshmerga group called PAK, is seen on the summit of Bashiqa Mountain, Iraq, where the group man defensive position alongside their Iraqi-Kurdish counterparts.<br />
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Bashiqa Mountain, towering over the town of the same name, is now a heavily fortified front line. Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions. Regular exchanges of fire take place between the Kurds and the Islamic militants with the occupied Iraqi city of Mosul forming the backdrop.<br />
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The town of Bashiqa, a formerly mixed town that had a population of Yazidi, Kurd, Arab and Shabak, now lies empty apart from insurgents. Along with several other urban sprawls the town forms one of the gateways to Iraq's second largest city that will need to be dealt with should the Kurds be called to advance on Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. A Kurdish peshmerga fighter fires a DShK heavy machine gun at ISIS vehicles moving near his unit's defensive position on Bashiqa Mountain, Iraq.<br />
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Bashiqa Mountain, towering over the town of the same name, is now a heavily fortified front line. Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions. Regular exchanges of fire take place between the Kurds and the Islamic militants with the occupied Iraqi city of Mosul forming the backdrop.<br />
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The town of Bashiqa, a formerly mixed town that had a population of Yazidi, Kurd, Arab and Shabak, now lies empty apart from insurgents. Along with several other urban sprawls the town forms one of the gateways to Iraq's second largest city that will need to be dealt with should the Kurds be called to advance on Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_BASHIQA_11_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. o01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. A fighter belonging to Iranian Kurdish peshmerga from PAK fires a 60mm mortar from defensive emplacements on the summit of Bashiqa Mountain at ISIS locations within the town of the same name.<br />
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Bashiqa Mountain, towering over the town of the same name, is now a heavily fortified front line. Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions. Regular exchanges of fire take place between the Kurds and the Islamic militants with the occupied Iraqi city of Mosul forming the backdrop.<br />
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The town of Bashiqa, a formerly mixed town that had a population of Yazidi, Kurd, Arab and Shabak, now lies empty apart from insurgents. Along with several other urban sprawls the town forms one of the gateways to Iraq's second largest city that will need to be dealt with should the Kurds be called to advance on Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga chat between guard shifts at a defensive positon on the top of Bashiqa Mountain near Mosul, Iraq.<br />
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Bashiqa Mountain, towering over the town of the same name, is now a heavily fortified front line. Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions. Regular exchanges of fire take place between the Kurds and the Islamic militants with the occupied Iraqi city of Mosul forming the backdrop.<br />
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The town of Bashiqa, a formerly mixed town that had a population of Yazidi, Kurd, Arab and Shabak, now lies empty apart from insurgents. Along with several other urban sprawls the town forms one of the gateways to Iraq's second largest city that will need to be dealt with should the Kurds be called to advance on Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. A Kurdish peshmerga fighter uses his mobile phone as he keeps watch from a position on top of Bashiqa Mountain near Mosul, Iraq.<br />
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Bashiqa Mountain, towering over the town of the same name, is now a heavily fortified front line. Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions. Regular exchanges of fire take place between the Kurds and the Islamic militants with the occupied Iraqi city of Mosul forming the backdrop.<br />
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The town of Bashiqa, a formerly mixed town that had a population of Yazidi, Kurd, Arab and Shabak, now lies empty apart from insurgents. Along with several other urban sprawls the town forms one of the gateways to Iraq's second largest city that will need to be dealt with should the Kurds be called to advance on Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. A Kurdish peshmerga fighter keeps watch from a position on top of Bashiqa Mountain near Mosul, Iraq.<br />
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Bashiqa Mountain, towering over the town of the same name, is now a heavily fortified front line. Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions. Regular exchanges of fire take place between the Kurds and the Islamic militants with the occupied Iraqi city of Mosul forming the backdrop.<br />
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The town of Bashiqa, a formerly mixed town that had a population of Yazidi, Kurd, Arab and Shabak, now lies empty apart from insurgents. Along with several other urban sprawls the town forms one of the gateways to Iraq's second largest city that will need to be dealt with should the Kurds be called to advance on Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_BASHIQA_08_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. A Kurdish peshmerga fighter keeps watch from a position on top of Bashiqa Mountain near Mosul, Iraq.<br />
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Bashiqa Mountain, towering over the town of the same name, is now a heavily fortified front line. Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions. Regular exchanges of fire take place between the Kurds and the Islamic militants with the occupied Iraqi city of Mosul forming the backdrop.<br />
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The town of Bashiqa, a formerly mixed town that had a population of Yazidi, Kurd, Arab and Shabak, now lies empty apart from insurgents. Along with several other urban sprawls the town forms one of the gateways to Iraq's second largest city that will need to be dealt with should the Kurds be called to advance on Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_BASHIQA_02_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. Lights coming from Islamic State held Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, are seen from Kurdish peshmerga defensive positions on Bashiqa Mountain.<br />
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Bashiqa Mountain, towering over the town of the same name, is now a heavily fortified front line. Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions. Regular exchanges of fire take place between the Kurds and the Islamic militants with the occupied Iraqi city of Mosul forming the backdrop.<br />
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The town of Bashiqa, a formerly mixed town that had a population of Yazidi, Kurd, Arab and Shabak, now lies empty apart from insurgents. Along with several other urban sprawls the town forms one of the gateways to Iraq's second largest city that will need to be dealt with should the Kurds be called to advance on Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_BASHIQA_10_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. Islamic State held territory, including Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, is seen from Kurdish peshmerga defensive positions on Bashiqa Mountain.<br />
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Bashiqa Mountain, towering over the town of the same name, is now a heavily fortified front line. Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions. Regular exchanges of fire take place between the Kurds and the Islamic militants with the occupied Iraqi city of Mosul forming the backdrop.<br />
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The town of Bashiqa, a formerly mixed town that had a population of Yazidi, Kurd, Arab and Shabak, now lies empty apart from insurgents. Along with several other urban sprawls the town forms one of the gateways to Iraq's second largest city that will need to be dealt with should the Kurds be called to advance on Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_BASHIQA_09_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga chat between guard shifts at a defensive positon on the top of Bashiqa Mountain near Mosul, Iraq.<br />
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Bashiqa Mountain, towering over the town of the same name, is now a heavily fortified front line. Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions. Regular exchanges of fire take place between the Kurds and the Islamic militants with the occupied Iraqi city of Mosul forming the backdrop.<br />
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The town of Bashiqa, a formerly mixed town that had a population of Yazidi, Kurd, Arab and Shabak, now lies empty apart from insurgents. Along with several other urban sprawls the town forms one of the gateways to Iraq's second largest city that will need to be dealt with should the Kurds be called to advance on Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. A Kurdish peshmerga fighter cleans an M84 general purpose machine gun during downtime at a peshmerga position on Bashiqa Mountain near Mosul.<br />
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Bashiqa Mountain, towering over the town of the same name, is now a heavily fortified front line. Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions. Regular exchanges of fire take place between the Kurds and the Islamic militants with the occupied Iraqi city of Mosul forming the backdrop.<br />
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The town of Bashiqa, a formerly mixed town that had a population of Yazidi, Kurd, Arab and Shabak, now lies empty apart from insurgents. Along with several other urban sprawls the town forms one of the gateways to Iraq's second largest city that will need to be dealt with should the Kurds be called to advance on Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_BASHIQA_03_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 02/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. Illuminated sections of the ISIS held Iraqi town of Bashiqa, and the distant lights of Mosul, are seen from peshmerga positions on Bashiqa Mountain, Iraq. The Islamic State leaves certain parts of Bashiqa town illuminated in an attempt to coax coalition airstrikes in to areas of the town away from their positions.<br />
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Bashiqa Mountain, towering over the town of the same name, is now a heavily fortified front line. Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions. Regular exchanges of fire take place between the Kurds and the Islamic militants with the occupied Iraqi city of Mosul forming the backdrop.<br />
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The town of Bashiqa, a formerly mixed town that had a population of Yazidi, Kurd, Arab and Shabak, now lies empty apart from insurgents. Along with several other urban sprawls the town forms one of the gateways to Iraq's second largest city that will need to be dealt with should the Kurds be called to advance on Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_BASHIQA_16_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga chat between guard shifts inside their accommodation on the top of the Bashiqa Mountain near Mosul, Iraq.<br />
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Bashiqa Mountain, towering over the town of the same name, is now a heavily fortified front line. Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions. Regular exchanges of fire take place between the Kurds and the Islamic militants with the occupied Iraqi city of Mosul forming the backdrop.<br />
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The town of Bashiqa, a formerly mixed town that had a population of Yazidi, Kurd, Arab and Shabak, now lies empty apart from insurgents. Along with several other urban sprawls the town forms one of the gateways to Iraq's second largest city that will need to be dealt with should the Kurds be called to advance on Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. A puff of smoke marks the spot where a coalition aircraft dropped a bomb on ISIS vehicles moving through the town of Bashiqa, Iraq. The ISIS heald city of Mosul can be seen illuminated in the background.<br />
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Bashiqa Mountain, towering over the town of the same name, is now a heavily fortified front line. Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions. Regular exchanges of fire take place between the Kurds and the Islamic militants with the occupied Iraqi city of Mosul forming the backdrop.<br />
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The town of Bashiqa, a formerly mixed town that had a population of Yazidi, Kurd, Arab and Shabak, now lies empty apart from insurgents. Along with several other urban sprawls the town forms one of the gateways to Iraq's second largest city that will need to be dealt with should the Kurds be called to advance on Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_BASHIQA_12_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 01/09/2015. Bashiqa, Iraq. Personal effects of Kurdish peshmerga fighters inside their accommodation on the top of the Bashiqa Mountain near Mosul, Iraq.<br />
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Bashiqa Mountain, towering over the town of the same name, is now a heavily fortified front line. Kurdish peshmerga, having withdrawn to the mountain after the August 2014 ISIS offensive, now watch over Islamic State held territory from their sandbagged high-ground positions. Regular exchanges of fire take place between the Kurds and the Islamic militants with the occupied Iraqi city of Mosul forming the backdrop.<br />
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The town of Bashiqa, a formerly mixed town that had a population of Yazidi, Kurd, Arab and Shabak, now lies empty apart from insurgents. Along with several other urban sprawls the town forms one of the gateways to Iraq's second largest city that will need to be dealt with should the Kurds be called to advance on Mosul. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
    LNP_BASHIQA_05_MCR.JPG
  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 03/04/2013. London, UK. UN International Mine Awareness Day [FILE PHOTO NOT FOR ONLINE USE]. A Mines Advisory Group (MAG) Mines Action Team deminer checks safety pins that have been used to render a Valmara (V-69) bounding mine safe for removal In a defensive minefield around a former Iraqi Army position near Kirkuk, Iraq. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • © Licensed to London News Pictures. 30/03/2015. Erbil, Iraq. A German coalition forces constructed bunker, used to teach Kurdish peshmerga on defensive tactics, is seen at a military training area near Erbil, Iraq.<br />
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The training is part of a four week long package, the first to be held with a complete peshmerga battalion, run by coalition forces mobile training teams (MTT) in Kurdistan with the aim to make the peshmerga more efficient in combatting the Islamic State. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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  • 20/10/2016. Bashiqa, Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga rest after taking up defensive positions along an Islamic State constructed berm during an offensive to retake the ISIS held town of Bashiqa, near Mosul, Iraq today (20/10/2016).<br />
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Launched in the early hours of today with support from coalition special forces and air strikes, the attack is part of the larger operation to retake Mosul from the Islamic State, and involves both the Kurds and the Iraqi Army. The city of Bashiqa, around 9 miles north of Mosul, is one of several gateway areas that must be taken before any attempted offensive on Mosul itself.<br />
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Despite the peshmerga suffering several casualties after militants fought back using mortars, heavy machine guns and snipers, the Kurdish forces were quickly taking ground with Haider al-Abadi, the Iraqi prime minister, stating that the operation to retake Mosul was progressing faster than expected. Photo credit: Matt Cetti-Roberts/LNP
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