Kurdish forces advance to fight jihadis at Mosul dam on Monday Kurdish forces wrested control of Iraq ’s Mosul dam from jihadis on Monday, after the US launched its most intensive day of air strikes since intervening in the conflict 10 days ago. Although Kurdish peshmerga forces, with the support of US air power and Iraqi military on the ground, were still clearing the last resistance by fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant , local officials said they had retaken the dam in the most significant defeat for Isis so far. More On this story On this topic IN Iraq Iraqi and US officials feared that Isis could use the Mosul dam, three decades old and poorly maintained, as a weapon. Whoever controls the dam could cut off power or water to millions of Iraqis. If destroyed, the dam could cause devastation that would destroy […]