URGENT: ISIL recaptures Mosul Dam yet again, takes 200 Kurdish Peshmerga prisoners

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) According to an informed source in Nineveh province, on Tuesday, that the militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant  took control of the Mosul Dam fully for the second time after fierce battles with the Peshmerga forces, while stressing that ISIL captured 200 elements  of those forces.

The source said in a statement for IraqiNews.com that “The violent clashes broke out yesterday night and continued until dawn today, between the militants of ISIL and Peshmerga forces in the region of Mosul Dam (50 km north of the city) , resulted in the control of the dam fully by the element of ISIL.”

The source, who asked not to be named, said: “the militants of ISIL announced the capture of 200 members of the Peshmerga during those clashes.”

The Ministry of Peshmerga issued a denial of these claims: Peshmerga denies ISIL’s control on Mosul Dam