Driving Through Ghost Town: RT's Risky Ride Deep Into ISIS-Kurdish Frontline -- RT
Kurdish fighters have driven ISIS from key town of Rabia on the Iraqi border, with 120,000 Kurds currently on the frontier. RT’s Paula Slier made a hazardous journey to the border to find out what’s happening.
Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters took control of Rabia, “the most important strategic point for crossing” the border, in a battle that began before dawn, an Iraqi Kurdish political source told Reuters. Earlier, the IS fighters had the possibility to cross the border without any interference.
On Tuesday, two villages 40km south of Kirkuk have been freed by Peshmerga.
All in all, about half of the territory has been regained by Kurds, according to Peshmerga Secretary-General Jabbar Yawar, which triggered the US-led strikes.
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My Comment: It is reassuring to hear Kurdish resistance fighters say they can beat Islamic State forces without help from foreign boots on the ground. Is this possible? .... I hope so but I doubt it .... especially in the non-Kurdish contested regions in Iraq.
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