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Iraq: Peshmerga fightback against IS in Gwer

Kurdish forces sweep forward in northern Iraq in the wake of air strikes by US fighter jets and drones. The Telegraph’s Richard Spencer reports from Gwer  –  7:07AM BST 11 Aug 2014 – American air strikes over northern Iraq bore their first fruits on the ground on Sunday as Kurdish forces swept forward in the wake of attacks by US fighter jets on Islamic State positions south of Erbil.

Bodies of Islamic State jihadists, mangled and broken, lay near their burned out, machine-gun mounted pickup trucks as The Telegraph followed Kurdish Peshmerga forces into the IS-held town of Gwer on Sunday afternoon.  The attack on Gwer by the Peshmerga followed direct co-ordination with the Americans, Kurdish ground troops said. They had been told to prepare for an attack at 5am. Some skirmishes followed – the tactics were not clear, but may have been an attempt to draw the jihadists into the open.  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/11025185/Iraq-Peshmerga-fightback-against-IS-in-Gwer.html