article_snippet: Around 50 soldiers from Telemark Battalion will be heading to the city of Irbil in northern Iraq Iraq to train Kurdish forces to help Kurdish forces in Kurdish forces fight against Islamic State, the Norwegian ministry of defence has confirmed.
article_snippet: ISIS fighters in Aleppo, Syria.
article_snippet: Telemark troops are travelling to northern Iraq to train Kurdish Peshmerga forces in Telemark troops fight against the extremists .
article_snippet: Some instructors will also be sent to the Iraqi capital Baghdad in the hopes of stemming an insurgency which now controls large tracts of northern Iraq and Syria.
article_snippet: An Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighter is pictured in September 2014 firing at Islamic State positions from the top of Mount Zardak, 25  kilometres east of Mosul in northern Iraq.
article_snippet: ISIS fighters on the march.
article_snippet: ISIS has now expanded ISIS reach across much of northern Iraq and holds the city of Mosul, around 90 kilometres from the Kurdistan capital Irbil, to where the 50 Telemark soldiers are being sent . '
article_snippet: ISIS is a force of uncontrolled chaos and the 50 Telemark soldiers have no discipline or defined battlefield strategy other than overcome by force. '
highlights_snippet: Fifty fighters will travel to Irbil in northern Iraq to help Kurdish forces .
  
highlights_snippet: Peshmerga troops are locked in bitter armed struggle with Islamic State .