Smoke rises during clashes between Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Islamic State (IS) militants on the outskirts of Mosul January 21, 2015. Kurdish forces in northern Iraq said on Wednesday they had cleared Islamic State insurgents from nearly 500 square kilometres of territory and broken a key IS supply line between the city of Mosul and strongholds to the west near Syria. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari (IRAQ – Tags: CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT MILITARY POLITICS) – RTR4MDDZ






