Kurdish forces in northern Iraq regained the biggest dam of the country from the hands of the Daulah Islamiyah, a Kurdish official said.

Mosul Dam

Kurdish forces in northern Iraq regained the biggest dam of the country from the hands of the Daulah Islamiyah, a Kurdish official said.


Click Peshmerga forces launched Operation Sunday (17/8) morning, the United States backed air strikes.

Strategic dam which supplies water and electricity to the area of ​​northern Iraq that captured militant Daulah Islamiyah (DI) aka ISIS on August 7.

DI has seized a number of clickable regions of Iraq and Syria in recent months.
United States claimed to have destroyed or damaged 19 vehicles and checkpoints belonging to DI in air strikes around DAM, on Sunday.

Hoshyar Zebari, the Iraqi citizens who until last month served as the Iraqi Foreign Minister, told the BBC that the troops Peshmerhga got "fierce resistance" in the battle for the dam.

Mosul Dam supplying water and electricity northern Iraq
He added that the next goal is to clean the armed forces of the mountains Nineveh IN "to ensure the return of minorities."

Thousands of Christians and Yazidi minorities fled from his home, to save themselves from Click Daulah Islamiyah militants. BBC