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Kurdish forces, known as the Peshmerga, make their way to the front line to fight militants from the extremist Islamic State group at Mosul Dam, outside Mosul, Iraq, Monday, Aug 18, 2014. Boosted by two days of U.S. airstrikes, Iraqi and Kurdish forces on Monday wrested back control of the country's largest dam from Islamic militants, a military spokesman in Baghdad said, as fighting was reported to be underway for the rest of the strategic facility. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

A buyer’s market at gun bazaar in Kurdish town

Diaa Hadid · August 18, 2014 6:29 pm

Kurdish forces, known as peshmerga, stand guard near Mosul Dam at the town of Chamibarakat outside Mosul, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014. Kurdish forces took over parts of the largest dam in Iraq on Sunday less than two weeks after it was captured by the Islamic State extremist group, Kurdish security officials said, as U.S. and Iraqi planes aided their advance by bombing militant targets near the facility. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Kurdish forces retake parts of Iraq’s largest dam

Diaa Hadid · August 17, 2014 7:29 pm

In this Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014, displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community cross the Iraq-Syria border at Feeshkhabour bridge over Tigris River at Feeshkhabour border point, northern Iraq. Kurdish authorities at the border believe some 45,000 Yazidis passed the river crossing in the past week and thousands more are still stranded in the mountains. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

For Iraq Yazidis, a frantic search for the missing

Diaa Hadid · August 11, 2014 12:57 pm

Kurdish Peshmerga fighters walk toward the front line with militants from the extremist Islamic State group, at the Khazer checkpoint outside of the city of Irbil in northern Iraq, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. Iraqi Air Force has been carrying out strikes against the militants, and for the first time on Friday, U.S. war planes have directly targeted the extremist Islamic State group, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Bolstered by US, Kurds defiant to extremist threat

Diaa Hadid · August 8, 2014 10:14 pm

Lebanese army reinforcements arrive to the outskirts of Arsal, a predominantly Sunni Muslim town near the Syrian border in eastern Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. Thousands of Lebanese civilians and Syrian refugees packed cars and pickup trucks Monday, fleeing an eastern border town that was overrun by militants from neighboring Syria as Lebanese troops fight to liberate the area. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Some Syrian militants pull out of Lebanese town

Diaa Hadid · August 6, 2014 5:40 pm

Lebanese soldiers ride in the back of an army vehicle with detained suspected militants in the Lebanese town of Arsal, a primarily Sunni Muslim town near the Syrian border in eastern Lebanon, Sunday, Aug 3, 2014. At least 10 Lebanese Army soldiers were killed and over a dozen were captured in Arsal, while tens of militants have been killed, during clashes between the Army and Syrian armed groups, according to security sources. (AP Photo)

Syrian rebels kill 10, capture others in Lebanon

Diaa Hadid · August 3, 2014 6:52 pm

In this July 14, 2014 photo, Syrian refugee Umm Jamil looks on at her house in Halba town, northern Lebanon. Jamil, who takes care of her 19-year-old disabled son, said she was falsely accused of prostitution after Lebanese police confused her for another suspected prostitute in her building. Her brief detention left her feeling humiliated and wanting to leave Lebanon, where she said Syrian women are often seen as being sexually promiscuous. (AP Photo/Diaa Hadid)

Syrian refugee women face sexual exploitation

Diaa Hadid · August 1, 2014 7:12 am

Infighting as split emerges among Syrian rebels

Diaa Hadid · July 22, 2014 6:28 pm

Lebanese troops kill militant linked to bombing

Diaa Hadid · July 20, 2014 4:20 pm

In this photo taken on May 29, 2014, Syrian refugee women attend a hair dressing class where they obtain crucial training to find jobs in a community center in Halba, north Lebanon. Across the region women lead about a quarter of all Syrian refugee families, which number some 145,000, the United Nations estimated in a report issued Tuesday, July 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Syrian refugee women face harassment, poverty

Diaa Hadid · July 9, 2014 7:06 am

Syria rebel chief warns of ‘disaster’ without aid

Diaa Hadid · July 5, 2014 1:54 pm

FILE - In this April, 1975 file photo, Syria opens its fourth oil field at Jbeissah, 19 miles west of the Iraq border in April 1975. The opening ceremony was attended by Syrian Oil Minister Adnan Mustafa and several Soviet oil experts and Diplomats. Islamic militants seized an eastern Syrian oil field near Iraq and inched closer to the Turkish border on Friday, July 4, 2014 as they try to consolidate their control of an area along the length of the Euphrates river stretching through Syria and Iraq.(AP Photo/Harry Koundakjian, File)

Islamic militants seize Syria oil field

Diaa Hadid · July 4, 2014 1:07 pm