IN PICTURES: A day on the front line with the Peshmerga in Iraq

General Wasta Rasul, coordinating the attack on the field (MEE/Baram Maaruf)

General Sheikh Jaffar, the top commander of the offensive, was furious about the lack of organisation at the military base (MEE/Baram Maaruf)

Peshmerga fighters wait for orders to move into Albu Najem village, while it was being attacked by Kurdish forces and coalition airstrikes (MEE/Baram Maaruf)

eshmerga fighter inspecting destroyed houses in Albu Najem village, taken from IS (MEE/Baram Maaruf)

A digging machine belonging to IS was destroyed in the fighting (MEE/Baram Maaruf)

Peshmerga fighters who just returned from the front line eat sandwiches (MEE/Baram Maaruf)

Photo shows a room in the house IS was using as a base in Albu Najem village, with a dismantled IED (MEE/Baram Maaruf)

Peshmerga fighters pray in front the base taken from IS only one hour earlier (MEE/Baram Maaruf)

Peshmerga fighters wave from atop a military vehicle (MEE/Baram Maaruf)

Convoys were moving forward, among them members of the American paramilitary group "Daesh Hunting Club" (MEE/Baram Maaruf)

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