Iraq’s Biggest Dam at Risk as Militants Battle for Control -- Bloomberg
Kurdish security forces clashed with a breakaway al-Qaeda group that’s trying to extend its conquests in northern Iraq by seizing the country’s largest dam.
Fighting is raging near the Mosul dam, and it is a “no man’s land,” Sheikh Ahmed Al-Simmari, a resident of the nearby city of Rabia’ah, said in a phone interview. The Kurds have bolstered their forces around the area and are preparing a counteroffensive to retake the Rabia’ah border post with Syria and nearby towns, he said.
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