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From the archives: The Kurdish front line, 2016
Stars and Stripes
May 26, 2026
(Chad Garland/Stars and Stripes)
NAWARAN, Iraq, July 14, 2016: A peshmerga fighter stands on the berm at the Kurdish front lines about 15 miles from Islamic State-occupied Mosul. Troops here are among the closest Kurdish forces to Iraq’s second-largest city and the militants’ last urban stronghold in Iraq.