About a two hour's drive northeast of Baghdad, in Diyala province, Kurdish pershmerga are pounding the town of Sadiyah.<br/> <br />They're trying to wrest back control of the town from Islamic State militants who captured Sadiyah more than a week ago.<br/> <br />They're bombarded the town from the high ground to the north -- while Iraqi government forces attack the town from the south.<br/> <br />The militants took control of villages and towns in Diyala in June...and then more territory in August.<br/> <br />The radical offshoot of al Qaeda has seized whole swaths of both Syria and Iraq, and vows to set up a Sunni Muslim caliphate with no regard for modern borders.<br/> <br />But now, their advance in areas southeast of Arbil has been disrupted - with the backing of US airstrikes -- which peshmerga Brigadier-General Sardar Anwar, says are welcome assistance.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (ARABIC) BRIGADIER-GENERAL SARDAR ANWAR, SAYING:<br/> <br />"The U.S. air strike helps us from the military point of view and it has an effe
