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Morale High Among Kurdish Fighters on Northern Iraq Frontline

In northern Iraq, Kurdish fighters known as Peshmerga have begun pushing back militants of the Islamic State group with the help of U.S. airstrikes. VOA’s Scott Bobb reports from the front line near the village of Baghertha, some 60 kilometers southwest of Irbil.

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