Fighters with the militant group the
Islamic State in Iraq and Syria reached the triangle border between
Iraq, Syria and Turkey, it said in a message posted on Twitter on
Sunday.
ISIS
took control of Iraq’s largest hydroelectric dam on Iraq’s Tigris
River, which provides power to the city of Mosul about 50 kilometers (31
miles) to the south, the commander of the Peshmerga Kurdish fighters
who had been defending the facility said Sunday.
The dam workers remained inside the facility, which fell after a 24-hour battle, Lt. Col. Herash said.
Daniel Pipes, the president of the Middle East Forum, said, “If you control the Mosul Dam, you can threaten just about everybody,” Pipes told CNN’s Jonathan Mann.
Pipes said the militant
group now has the potential to create a flood so massive and
catastrophic that it would not only cause death, destruction and chaos
locally in the city of Mosul, but more than 450 kilometers (280 miles)
away in Baghdad as well.
“It’s a horrendous prospect,” he said.
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