Pinned Down by the Islamic State: The Road to Mosul ( Part 1)

Watch Part 2: Watch Part 3: 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 en