Credit: Reuters/Youssef Boudlal
1 of 2. Peshmerga fighters are seen in vehicles with Kurdish flags as they guard Mosul Dam in northern Iraq August 21, 2014.
The Kurdish forces, backed by U.S. airpower, took one district near the eastern entrance to Jalawla, 115 km (70 miles) northeast on Baghdad, the site of weeks of clashes, the sources said.
Iraqi troops supported by Iraqi fighter planes were advancing towards the nearby town of Saadiya, the security sources said. Both towns are near the Iranian border and the semi-autonomous Kurdish region.
(Repoting by Raheem Salman; Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Alison Williams)
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