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One Peshmerga colonel said Islamic State fighters were using hit-and-run tactics in night attacks on their positions.

In northern Iraq's vast desert Khazer camp, residents are opening street stalls, taking on odd jobs and trying out entirely new professions.

The IS group on Saturday released a video that shows militants smashing artefacts at the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq before blowing up the site.

Dozens of Turkish nationals held hostage by Islamic State jihadists in northern Iraq for more than three months have been released, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Saturday.

There are "far fewer" Yazidi refugees marooned on Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq than previously thought and they are in better condition than expected, the Pentagon said.

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The jihadists' advances in northern Iraq have also prompted an exodus of Christians.

US forces Saturday launched more airstrikes in northern Iraq to defend attacks on Yazidi civilians.

US warplanes bombed jihadist positions in northern Iraq, in what the federal and Kurdish governments vowed would allow them to start clawing back areas lost in two months of conflict.

Aside from security and safety issues, the rough terrain of northern Iraq is making it difficult to assist the Yazidi made stranded by the IS.

Jihadists who took over large areas of northern Iraq have forced 100,000 Christians to flee and occupied churches, removing crosses and destroying manuscripts.

Suicide bombers killed 19 people in two attacks in northern Iraq on Thursday, while two more people died in other violence.

A suicide bomber killed nine Kurdish police in northern Iraq on Sunday, a district official and a doctor said.

Kurdish rebels announced on Thursday they would on May 8 begin withdrawing from Turkey into their safe haven in northern Iraq amid a peace drive between Ankara and the rebel movement.

Back-to-back suicide bombings in northern Iraq killed the head of the country's intelligence academy and two of his guards on Saturday, officials said, in the latest in a surge in nationwide violence.