Eradicate them for the vermin that they are……
Kurdish forces in fresh push to close in on ISIS-held Mosul
Kurdish Peshmerga forces keep watch in a village east of Mosul, Iraq, May 29, 2016.
REUTERS/AZAD LASHKARI
(Reuters) – Kurdish Peshmerga forces backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes launched a fresh attack on Islamic State militants in northern Iraq in the early hours of Sunday, as part of a plan to close in on their de facto capital Mosul, a Kurdish official said.
The offensive began after heavy shelling and several airstrikes, a Reuters correspondent reported from Wardak, 30 km (19 miles) south-east of Mosul, where some of the Peshmerga forces are deployed. Clouds of black smoke could be seen at a distance, possibly tires or other items set on fire by the militants to obstruct the planes’ visibility.