As Kurds regain ground in Iraq, new challenges emerge
HASSAN SHAM Iraq (Reuters) - The changing fortunes of war in northern Iraq are recorded in layers of graffiti daubed on the walls of villages overrun by Islamic State militants this summer, but since re-appropriated by Kurdish peshmerga forces. "Bravo peshmerga," read the freshest markings, painted over older inscriptions - some of them already scribbled out - that proclaim "property of the Islamic State". Village by village, Kurdish forces have regained around half the territory they gave up in August when IS militants tore through their ...
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