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WATCH: East Mosul offensive through the lens of Peshmerga camera

Kurdistan24 documented the footages of a Peshmerga soldier where he filmed the offensive that Peshmerga forces conducted against the Islamic State (IS) in the late of May 2016.

Sangar Ali 2016/09/01 11:34

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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan24) - Kurdistan24 documented the footages of a Peshmerga soldier filming the offensive that Kurdish forces conducted against the Islamic State (IS) in late May 2016.

Peshmerga forces launched a military operation on August 14 from Gwer and Khazir front lines, east of Mosul, liberating 11 villages from the so-called Islamic State (IS).

The offensive started at 5:00 a.m. and was directly supervised by the President of Kurdistan Region Masoud Barzani.

Peshmerga forces and the Kurdistan Region Security Council (KRSC) Counter-terrorism forces participated in the offensive with the aerial support of the US-led coalition jets.

Nearly 150 square kilometers were cleared from the IS including the villages of Himera, Qariyatakh, Sitah, Tal Hamid, Qaraqash, Abkhaz, al-Hasudiya, Small Kanhash, Big Kanhash, Shanaf and Omarmandan as well as the Gwer-Mosul road.

According to Peshmerga commanders, nearly 130 IS extremists were killed during the two-day offensive.

Editing by Ava Homa
(Jutyar Naif contributed in this report)