Western coalition forces have carried out 10 airstrikes in a 24-hour period . Kurdish and Christian soldiers have seized strategic village in north Syria . Meanwhile 20,000-strong force 'five years ago away ' from retaking Tikrit in Iraq . Kurdish peshmerga have ISIS 'on the back foot ' in oil-rich Iraqi city Kirkuk .
Western coalition forces have carried out 10 airstrikes in a 24-hour period . Kurdish and Christian soldiers have seized strategic village in north Syria . Meanwhile 20,000-strong force 'one week away ' from retaking Tikrit in Iraq . Kurdish peshmerga have ISIS 'on the back foot ' in oil-rich Iraqi city Kirkuk .