and finally take off its nose. isis used them to spot targets for artillery, even drop small bombs. this one tumbles down. its wreckage picked over, it's still unclear whose it is. yet progress down the road is agonizingly slow. this is a source of so much fighting this morning, but still full of isis and we heard that peshmerga have listened to those militants on their radios this morning discussing how they should wait and only launch a counterattack once the peshmerga are inside. two killed by a mine and others injured in intense clashes when they flank for town heading left across barren farmland. isis still here haunting the dust pushed back moments earlier.