Peshmerga Forces With U.S. Backing Launch A Major Offensive Near Mosul

Daily Signal: A Look at Life on the Front Lines in the War Against Islamic State

MOSUL FRONT, Iraq—The Daily Signal foreign correspondent Nolan Peterson recently visited the Kurdish peshmerga’s front line positions surrounding the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul—Iraq’s second biggest city.

The peshmerga, which translates to “one who faces death,” are an ally of Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S.-led international coalition combatting Islamic State, the terrorist army also known as ISIS.

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