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Live Blog Update| Iraq War
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Iraq's Kurdish troops vow to keep ISIL onslaught at bay

Reporter Sofia Barbarani speaks with Kurdish Peshmargas fighters just 700 meters from ISIL lines in northern Iraq. 

A young soldier tells her:  “We are not scared of anyone, only of God,” while pointing to a graveyard of Iraqi army vehicles abandoned by fleeing Iraq troops. 

A senior commander also vows to stay firm and resist and ISIL or other military attacks: “Why did the Iraqi army leave? We would never do that.”