The United States has advised Iraqi citizens to be prepared to leave the country if the Mosul dam collapses.
Airstrikes by the United States on various targets and positions of the Islamic State have enabled Kurdish pesh merga and Iraqi Special Forces to retake control of the Mosul Dam, one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure in all of Iraq.
Frustrated by their inability to make further gains on the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, it appears as if the Islamic State has chosen to engage Kurdish forces in Kurdish-controlled territory for the first time since taking control of large portions of eastern Syria and western Iraq.
