Here's The Aftermath Of The Victorious Battle Against ISIS For Mosul Dam {IMAGES}

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http://www.businessinsider.com/aftermath-of-the-battle-for-the-mosul-dam-2014-8

After a series of battles that's raged since the beginning of August, the Kurdish Peshmerga are again in control of the Mosul Dam in Iraq.

The dam in Mosul is Iraq's largest and one of the critical pieces of infrastructure for a country of 32 million people. The dam provides electricity to Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, as well as the surrounding region. The dam can also be converted into a ready-made weapon of mass destruction — the dam is highly unstable, and if it were to collapse, massive floods would hit both Mosul and Baghdad.

ISIS managed to wrest control of the dam away from the Peshmerga on August 7. However, a concerted counter attack by the Peshmerga and the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF), with air support from the U.S., drove ISIS out.

The U.S. bombing targeted ISIS vehicle convoys and heavy weapons, allowing the Peshmerga and ISF to strike more definitively against ISIS.



So far, the U.S. has conducted over 80 airstrikes against ISIS around the Mosul Dam and in the north of Iraq.



Since retaking the dam, the ISF and the Peshmerga have stationed a larger contingent of soldiers throughout the area in the hopes of holding it.