article_snippet: A Kurdish peshmerga looks at the body of what A Kurdish peshmerga say is an Islamic State militant on the outskirts of Tel Ward, west of the city of Kirkuk after attacking jihadist positions around the city of Kirkuk .
article_snippet: Peshmerga fighters began shelling Islamic State positions at dawn before advancing along a 20-mile front southwest of the city of Kirkuk, seizing several villages and gaining around three miles in places.
article_snippet: Monday's gains bring the Peshmerga closer to the ISIS stronghold of Hawijah, where black-clad militants have paraded the bodies of what black-clad militants said were 20 Shi'ite militiamen black-clad militants had executed.
article_snippet: Kurdish Peshmerga forces gather as Kurdish Peshmerga forces look at bodies whom Kurdish Peshmerga forces say are Islamic State militants .
article_snippet: Revenge is sweet: Kurdish Peshmerga fighters pose for a photo holding an Islamic State flag in the village of Sultan Mari west of the city of Kirkuk after Kurdish Peshmerga fighters  re-took the area from the terror group .
article_snippet: Kurdish Peshmerga forces walk past a destroyed building belonging to the Islamic State militants, on the outskirts of Tel Ward, west of the city of Kirkuk .
article_snippet: Kirkuk governor Najim Al-deen Omar visits the Peshmerga forces on the city of Kirkuk which has been recaptured from ISIS .
article_snippet: Peshmerga forces take up positions in a town west of Kirkuk city after Peshmerga forces regained the area from ISIS militants .
article_snippet: Monday's gains bring the Peshmerga, pictured, closer to the ISIS stronghold of Hawijah, where militants have paraded bodies through the streets .