Horrors of War Haunt Kurds as Weapons Trickle Into Erbil
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After two months on the front line holding off the onslaught of Islamic State, Peshmerga fighter Ari Harsin says one incident will haunt him forever.
Two of his comrades in their 20s volunteered to defuse a bomb before the Kurdish military unit could advance and recover the Iraqi village of Hasan Shah, which had fallen to the extremist group. It was a trap. The militants, freshly trained and better-equipped, detonated it remotely.