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IRAQ, Gwer: Peshmerga fighters hold a position on the frontline in the Gwer district, 40 kilometres south of Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, as battles with Islamic State (IS) jihadists continue on December 1st, 2015. The United States, which leads the coalition, initially launched strikes in Iraq on August 8 and widened its campaign on September 23, 2014 to include Syria, where IS has its headquarters.