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Kurdish forces, backed by American aircraft, resumed Sunday Iraq's largest dam, north of Mosul, the jihadists of the Islamic state (EI) which had seized ten days earlier, announced officials.
A Kurdish officer and two party officials have told AFP that the Peshmerga Kurdish fighters had taken control of the dam after an offensive launched Saturday.
An indispensable dam
The EI, which seized large parts of Iraqi territory in two months of explosive offensive, launched in early August a series of attacks in northern Iraq, seizing several villages and infrastructure strategic, as dam or oil wells.
The dam on the Tigris River, located on the southern shore of Lake Mosul, some 50 km north of the city, provides water and electricity to most of the region and is essential for the irrigation of large areas of culture in the province of Nineveh.
Major flooding in western Baghdad
The IE uses dams that control as weapons that can allow it to flood large areas. Earlier this year, the jihadists and flooded large areas around Fallujah, west of Baghdad. But Mosul is the stronghold of the insurgents in Iraq and his dam is important to the economy of the EI and its desire to build a personified by the "Caliphate" proclaimed state in late June. http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2014/08/17/97001-20140817FILWWW00174-les-kurdes-ont-repris-le-plus-grand-barrage-d-irak-aux-djihadistes.php
A Kurdish officer and two party officials have told AFP that the Peshmerga Kurdish fighters had taken control of the dam after an offensive launched Saturday.
An indispensable dam
The EI, which seized large parts of Iraqi territory in two months of explosive offensive, launched in early August a series of attacks in northern Iraq, seizing several villages and infrastructure strategic, as dam or oil wells.
The dam on the Tigris River, located on the southern shore of Lake Mosul, some 50 km north of the city, provides water and electricity to most of the region and is essential for the irrigation of large areas of culture in the province of Nineveh.
Major flooding in western Baghdad
The IE uses dams that control as weapons that can allow it to flood large areas. Earlier this year, the jihadists and flooded large areas around Fallujah, west of Baghdad. But Mosul is the stronghold of the insurgents in Iraq and his dam is important to the economy of the EI and its desire to build a personified by the "Caliphate" proclaimed state in late June. http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2014/08/17/97001-20140817FILWWW00174-les-kurdes-ont-repris-le-plus-grand-barrage-d-irak-aux-djihadistes.php
