Breaking News #8 - Oct. 21, 2017, 4:15 PM, Iraq

Breaking News #8 - Oct. 21, 2017, 4:15 PM, Iraq

On Friday, October 20, Kurdish Peshmerga forces destroyed one M1 Abrams tank and at least seven Humvees at Altun Kupri, between Erbil and Kirkuk.

 The Iraqi forces were using these American-supplied vehicles to attack Kurdistan inside its border established in 2003.

U.S. Senator John McCain said the U.S. weaponized the Iraqi government to destroy ISIS, not to attack Kurds. These photos of the destroyed Abrams tank were taken from a drone and shared by a Peshmerga commander. Earlier photos that circulated on social media were posted in order to show what an M1 Abrams tank looks like. Those photos were file photos, but the events were real. These photos posted now are the actual aerial photos of the tank that Peshmerga destroyed on October 20.

reported by Ali Javanmardi, independent journalist, Kurdistan