
Iraqi Kurdish fighters backed by US warplanes retook the country's largest dam from militants on Sunday, the BBC news reported.
The recapture of Mosul dam marks the biggest major prize clawed back from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadists since they launched their offensive in northern Iraq in early June when they swept Iraqi security forces aside.
Buoyed by the air strikes US President Barack Obama ordered last week, Kurdish forces are fighting to win back ground they had lost since the start of August, when the jihadists went back on the offensive north, east and west of the city of Mosul, capturing the dam on August 7.
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