VOA常速英语:Anti-IS Forces Seek Clues to How Militants Ruled Iraqi Villages(翻译)

About 10 kilometers from the front lines of the battle, peshmerga soldiers tour an area recently recaptured from Islamic State militants.They say they’ve learned a lot about how the militant group works from examining the ruins of what once were bustling villages.

A bomb factory was installed in this shop and oil was burnt to hide the village from coalition forces.

“The IS bodies are still here, so we know how many died.We don’t know how many escaped.”

Sandbags fill most of this mosque, putting the bags inside rather than outside,was another ploy to hide IS positions from coalition planes.Peshmerga now slip down the tunnel IS built under the village,the militants’ escape route from their enemies.

While this kind of new knowledge helps, say soldiers, fighting IS is still incredibly complicated.

“The challenges that remain are the car bombs and suicide bombs.Also, we have weapons, but we are not as well equipped as the Iraqi Army.We need more and better weapons.”

At the other end of the tunnel, Peshmerga soldiers emerge, saying they will keep fighting until the militant group is crushed.

Peshmerga soldiers, the Iraqi army, and Shiite militias are all fighting IS together, but tensions remain among them.

Even as these forces clear more areas of IS fighters,many people are frustrated because they still cannot go home,as rubble, bombs and bodies make the villages unsafe.

Heather Murdock，VOA news, Tarjala, Iraqi Kurdistan