(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Erbil August 18 (QNA) - Kurdish forces have advanced to retake some part of Mosul Dam in Iraq according to NBC News. Citing Kurdish security officials the report said US and Iraqi planes aided the forces' advance by bombing militant targets near the facility. The Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) extremist group captured the Mosul Dam two weeks ago. The dam on the River Tigris supplies electricity and water for irrigation to a large part of Iraq. The US began targeting ISIS fighters with airstrikes a little over a week ago allowing Kurdish forces to fend off an advance on their regional capital Erbil and to help tens of thousands of members of religious minorities escape the extremists' onslaught. Recapturing the dam would be a significant victory against the Islamic State group which has seized vast areas of northern and western Iraq and north-eastern Syria the NBC News report added. (QNA)
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