Kurdish Peshmerga Fighters Wait for Mosul Battle
Kurdish Peshmerga Fighters Wait for Mosul Battle
- By Sharon Behn
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A small Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga outlook fortified with sandbags sits atop a hill overlooking the Makhmour, an area once controlled by Islamic State but now under Kurdish control, March 8, 2016. (S. Behn/VOA)
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Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga manning the last Peshmerga base in Makhmour on the frontline against Islamic State. Commanders say IS militants attack the frontline daily with mortars and rockets, March 8, 2016. (S. Behn/VOA)
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Machine gun and bullets are at the ready at the final Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga base in Makhmour on the frontline against Islamic State, March 8, 2016. (S. Behn/VOA)
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Bullets lined up in the gap between sandbags forming a wall protecting the Iraqi Kurdish forces' last military base on the frontline with Islamic State in the Makhmour area of Iraq, March 8, 2016. (S. Behn/VOA)
