URGENT: Kurdish Peshmerga forces withdraw from Mosul Dam without fighting
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) According to security sources in the province of Nineveh, the Kurdish Peshmerga forces withdrew from the Mosul Dam north of the province of Nineveh before the expiry of the deadline set by gangs of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant to Peshmerga to leave the dam despite claims to the contrary by the Ministry of Water Resources
The source said that “the Peshmerga forces withdraw from Mosul Dam fully with their mechanized forces and equipment close to a deadline, ISIL gave them two hours for the purpose of entering to the dam.”
The source, who asked not to be named, said: “Peshmerga forces also withdrew from the area of Badria (50 km north of Mosul) towards the area of Fayda (60 km north of the city).”
Violent clashes broke out, since the dawn of Sunday, between armed elements of ISIL and Peshmerga forces near Mosul Dam, northwest of the city of Nineveh, in an attempt to control the dam.
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