Kurdish Peshmerga Fighters Wait for Mosul Battle
Kurdish Peshmerga Fighters Wait for Mosul Battle
- By Sharon Behn
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Born in 1938, elder Peshmerga fighter and now a volunteer, Omar Mirhan talks about the Kurdish fight for the Makhmour area, standing at a hill overlooking the town, March 8, 2016. (S. Behn/VOA)
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Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers huddle around Maj. Gen. Sirwan Barzani in Makhmour, Iraq. Makhmour is expected to serve as one of the staging points for Iraqi and Peshmerga forces in the advance against the Islamic State-controlled city of Mosul, March 8
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Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga Maj. Gen. Sirwan Barzani with his fellow commanders during a short visit to one of the posts set back from the Peshmerga frontline against Islamic State, March 8, 2016. (S. Behn/VOA)
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Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga standing near one of the their lookout posts that straddles the frontline against the Islamic State in the area of Makhmour. Makhmour is expected to be one of the staging points for Iraqi and Peshmerga forces to advance on the IS-c
