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Hi.I'm Carl Azuz with CNN STUDENT NEWS.
It's Friday, the 13th of November.
And we're starting our 10 minutes of currentevents coverage, with a look at a battle happeningright now in northern Iraq.
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters are trying to takecontrol of the Iraqi town of Sinjar, from the ISISterrorists who currently occupy it.
We've talked about the Kurds lately.
They're an ethnic group that lives in different parts of the Middle East.
And the Peshmerga are a Kurdish military force leading this fight on the ground.
One thing ISIS wants to do is form a caliphate, its own country based on its severeinterpretation of Islam.
ISIS wants it located in Iraq and Syria.
But if Kurdish forces with international help are able to reclaim Sinjar, it would help break upthe areas controlled by ISIS.
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh was there when the battle began on Thursday morning.
Just behind me, you can see the thick black smoke that has been covering the center of Sinjarsince pretty much about this Thursday when the offensive began in earliest of first light, andthe distance over here, too, there's been pretty consistent exchanges of heavy machinegunfire.
I can't tell you precisely where we are.
We're on the outskirts of Sinjar because of the rules we agreed to while working with thePeshmerga on this embed.
But there is intense fighting here.
They are trying to dig themselves in and I'm standing on a key part of the strategic missionhere, which is to take over this route that runs between ISIS's capital of Raqqa in Syria and thekey town of Mosul in Iraq.
Now, at this stage, the Peshmerga seem to hold this particular area, thanks to the noise I'mhearing above me of coalition of jets, drones as well.
And we also hear potentially military advisers in the local area, too.
Further down this road, though, the challenge gets messier.
We're hearing of potentially 300 ISIS fighters still in the urban sprawl there.
It's densely packed.
The Peshmerga are moving round in an arch it seems to try and go round the entire city.
But intense fighting potentially ahead here, no sense of things slowing and ISIS very closelyto area, within a kilometer frankly of where I'm standing.
So, much optimism at dawn.
This could be over in the days.
At the day ends, the booby traps, the mines, the sheer exhaustion potentially of moving intothis city, the booby trap roads making some Peshmerga here slightly less optimistic this couldbe over as quickly as they'd hoped.
Violence in another part of the Middle East.
Dozens of civilians were killed and hundreds were wounded last night in the capital of Lebanon,when two suicide bombers detonated their explosives in a crowded part of Beirut.
Lebanon's prime minister declared a today a day of mourning.
There are reports that the ISIS terrorist group is saying it's responsible for the attack.
But officials can't say for sure yet whether that claim is authentic.
On August 8, 2012, U.S. Army Captain Florent Groberg was guarding military leaders as theywalked down a street in Afghanistan.
They were approached by a man who was hiding something in his clothes.
Captain Groberg and another soldier rushed in to push the man away from their patrol, and heset off his explosives.
Then, a second suicide bomber appeared and detonated, killing four other U.S. soldiers.
Captain Groberg survived, but he needed 33 surgeries to keep his leg.
His heroism is why President Obama presented him with the Medal of Honor yesterday, the U.S.military's highest decoration.
The now retired Army captain is the tenth living person to receive the Medal of Honor for actionin Afghanistan.
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