Kurdish Forces in Iraq Advance on Islamic State
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Kurdish peshmerga forces clash with Islamic State militants in the town of Daquq, south of Kirkuk, Sept. 30, 2014.
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Volunteers with Kurdish peshmerga forces clash with Islamic State militants in the town of Daquq, south of Kirkuk, Sept. 30, 2014.
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Islamic State flags flutter on the Mullah Abdullah bridge where members of the Kurdish security forces and the Islamic State are holding fort behind sandbags on different ends of the bridge, in southern Kirkuk, Sept. 29, 2014.
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Abu Ismail, the owner of a plastics factory that was targeted on Sunday by what activists said were U.S.-led air strikes, examines the damage at his destroyed factory in the Islamic State's stronghold of Raqqa, Sept. 29, 2014.