Kurdish forces backed by air strikes in the United States seeks to seize Mosul dam of militant groups now renamed ISIS so Islamic State in northern Iraq.
Operation to recapture the biggest dam in the country since Saturday (08/16/2014) yesterday with an attack by F-18 fighter aircraft and unmanned aircraft (drones), as stated by the United States officials.
Command center said it had done nine times air strike on Saturday that the region close to the target of Arbil and Mosul dam.
Military statement said the attack destroyed a number of vehicles carrying weapons.
Military officials told NBC News that the decision to take over the dam carried out after intelligence showed ISIS "is not going to blow up at the point of installation".
Kurdish peshmerga fighters have locked position militant groups, and the mention of a ground attack that can not be confirmed.
A Kurdish commander Major General Abdelrahman Korini, told AFP that the Peshmerga have mastered the eastern part of the dam and still continue to "attack".
Meanwhile, the report mentions the massacre carried ISIS back against non-Muslim civilians in a village near Sinjar.
In addition, ISIS also suspected of killing 700 people in Deir Ezzor province near the border is like oil, according to a report that can not be independently verified.
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