Start as manager on the opening day of the new premier league season. The United States has launched more airstrikes to try and drive back Islamic State fighters from northern iraq. Fighter planes pounded targets close to iraqs largest dam seized earlier this month by the group. There are reports that more than 80 men were killed and hundreds of women taken prisoners in the yazid ivillage. The Islamic State group controls 90 of the area. Live from erbil. Where is the fighting in the north leaving control of that Strategic Dam . Reporter well, its still in the hands of the Islamic State group, like you mentioned. The United States carried out a number of airstrikes around the dam in the sinjar mountains. We understand that up to 15 Islamic State fighters were killed but that area is still in their hands. From our sources, peshmerga forces, they are telling us that they are hoping they can exploit these airstrikes, take advantage and try to recapture that territory. This will not be an e
The United States has launched more airstrikes to try to drive back Islamic State rebels from north earn iraq. Fighter planes pounded targets close torages largest damn seized earlier this month. More than eighty people were killed and hundreds of women taken prirningz in a village southwest of sinjar. The Islamic State group controls 90 of the area. Zeina hodr as more from erbil. Reporter u. S. Military strikes targeted islamic straight group positions in sinjar as well as around the mosul dam. The Islamic State group still controls that territory. We understand that up to 15 fighters were killed in those attacks. But the Peshmerga Forces on the ground have not been able to advance to recapture this territory. This is not going to be an easy fight. The Islamic State group is we will armed and we will trained and the u. S. Air strikes really, the objective is to weaken the group, to defend the kurdish region as well as to protect minorities, not to defeat them. This is going to require