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VIDEO: The moment an IS fighter surrenders to the Kurdish Peshmerga

'Don't be afraid, I won't blow myself up,' says fighter as he surrenders to Kurdish forces in northern Iraq
IS fighter caught by Kurdish Peshmerga in Bashiqa, Iraq (Rudaw English)

Footage from Bashiqa, Iraq appears to show a suspected IS fighter surrendering himself to Kurdish Peshmerga forces.

Kurdish forces had taken Bashiqa, a town northeast of Mosul, where some 10,000 fighters were engaged in a huge assault. 

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