Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Iraqis, Kurds retake key dam from militants

Posted: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 12:00 am

BAGHDAD — Iraqi and Kurdish forces recaptured Iraq's largest dam from Islamic militants Monday following dozens of U.S. airstrikes, President Barack Obama said, in the first major defeat for the extremists since they swept across the country this summer.
Militants from the Islamic State group had seized the Mosul Dam on Aug. 7, giving them access and control of enormous power and water reserves and threatening to deny those resources to much of Iraq.




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