Islam Times - Peshmerga forces recapture 7 villages near Mosul

Islam Times - Iraqi Kurdish forces have recaptured seven villages from the grip of the ISIL Takfiri militants near a strategic dam in the northern city of Mosul.

“Peshmerga forces have secured seven strategic villages surrounding the Mosul Dam from the north,” the official Iraqi TV channel, al-Iraqiya, reported on Thursday.

Peshmerga forces liberated the village of Mahmoudia, near the northern border town of Rabia, as a result of which “the largest dam in Iraq and surrounding areas are now under control,” an Iraqi official said.

Peshmerga troops also pushed the Takfiri terrorists out of the Ain Zalah oil field near the city of Zumar.

Elsewhere, Iraqi military sources said a major operation against the ISIL terrorists was underway in the Shia Turkmen town of Amerli in the northern province of Salahuddin, where government forces have killed 29 ISIL Takfiris.