Kurds Release Video of Iraq Prison Rescue

A video posted online Sunday reportedly shows the joint U.S. and peshmerga raid on an Islamic State prison in northern Iraq last week that freed 69 hostages.   In the two-minute video taken from a helmet-mounted camera and shared by the Kurdistan Regional Security Council, several commandos in uniform are seen leading a group of men quickly between rooms as non-stop gunfire crackles nearby.   A man can be heard shouting in Arabic “hurry!” repeatedly as soldiers escort dozens of...

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