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The Battle for Northern Iraq

Fierce fighting in northern Iraq continues daily. For Our World, Yalda Hakim has travelled to the region.

Fierce fighting in northern Iraq continues daily between the 'Islamic State', I.S rebel army, Iraq's Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and the Iraqi national army. For Our World, Yalda Hakim has travelled to the region to assess how the brutal treatment of Iraq's Christian and Yazidi minorities at the hands of I.S, could be a terrifying precursor for what might lie ahead in Iraq if I.S gains the upper hand in the battle for control of what's fast becoming a failed state.

30 minutes

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Thu 4 Sep 2014 01:30GMT

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Presenter Yalda Hakim

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