Peshmerga vs. the Islamic State: The Road to Mosul ( Full Length)

A year after the Islamic State s lightning conquest of Iraq s secondlargest city of Mosul, the poorlytrained and equipped Kurdish peshmerga forces are the international coalition s only reliable boots on the ground in northern Iraq. The Pentagon s hopes of recapturing the city by spring 2015 have been dashed by the military failures of the Iraqi Army further south, leaving the peshmerga to defend a 600mile long frontline almost encircling Mosul, fending off constant Islamic State (IS) assaults with ins