Until late this summer the town of Qaryat Kanhash, in northern Iraq, was a stronghold of the fighters of the Islamic State (ISIS) and one of their last points of defense around the ISIS-controlled city of Mosul. Then, on August 14, as part of a campaign to drive them out, 2,500 of the Kurdish troops called peshmerga swept across Nineveh province from Iraqi Kurdistan and attacked the town from the north and the east.
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