On Tel Skof front near Mosul, this Peshmerga battle is different

Reporting from 12 km north of Mosul on the Tel Skof frontline 

The Peshmerga fight with ISIS on the Tel Skof frontline is different. This heavy weapon is meant to expel ISIS from a land it has occupied for more than two years.

This battle is different because it is the first time that the Peshmerga are getting closer to the capital of the ISIS caliphate, the city of Mosul.

With this suicide car bomb ISIS launched a forceful attack on the Peshmerga, but their plan was immediately foiled.

Peshmerga commanders have faced near-death and shown their support for their soldiers, who have succeeded in destroying the car bombs that ISIS has attacked them with.

We are now at the Tel Skof frontline. We are surrounded by fire and are in an ISIS area. ISIS is a force that still fights and Peshmerga say we brought all the artillery shells here to bomb ISIS. Because this is the last fight and is different from others. This fight is the fight to decide about Kurdistan’s borders.

The Peshmerga are saying ISIS knows the fight they have entered into, which is the beginning of their end in Mosul and in Iraq

A Peshmerga: “ISIS is fighting fiercely because it’s near Mosul.”

This time the Peshmerga are fighting to expel ISIS, but the end of ISIS might be the beginning of a war that Kurds, Iraq and regional countries are afraid of.