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Kurdish armed forces from Iraq and Syria have come together in fight to reclaim Iraqi town of Sinjar from Islamic State. Natasha Howitt reports.
Islamic State fighters insurgents seized control of most of a town in western Iraq, threatening an air base where U.S. Marines are stationed.
Two Kurdish fighters were killed and two French paratroops injured this week when a small ISIS-controlled drone exploded after being intercepted. A Kurdish defence spokesperson told Reuters the device has been booby-trapped.
Kurdish forces say they have captured several villages in a battle launched to retake the Iraqi town of Sinjar from Islamic State. Nathan Frandino reports.
Women living in Haji Ali, a group of villages numbering about 40,000 people in northern Iraq about 40 miles south of Mosul, have taken up arms to protect the area from Islamic State militants. IS-controlled villages are only about a mile away, so women have learned how to use weapons and have started guarding their families' houses at night, in order to help their men, which rotate in and out of the frontline. Villagers fear that IS could sneak across the Tigris river and into the village under the cover of night, and are complaining that locals don't have enough weapons to defend themselves.
Iraqi Kurdish forces have seized the town of Bashiqa near Mosul from the Islamic State group, an official said Tuesday, as US-backed militia forces advanced on the jihadists' Syrian stronghold Raqa. IMAGES