Peshmerga forces take back a village just south of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk Thursday - ending an Islamic State siege that lasted more than two months.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Kurdish) PESHMERGA FORCES COMMANDER, SHORASH JAWHER, SAYING:<br/> <br />"We imposed full control of the town. We killed more than 10 Islamic State militants, and we still have their dead bodies."<br/> <br />Kurdish peshmerga forces along with Shi'ite militias and Iraqi troops retook the village after U.S. air strikes late Saturday hit IS positions.<br/> <br />On Thursday, the Defense Department released footage from last week showing a series of strikes on Islamic State targets.<br/> <br />Islamic State militants launched a lightning advance through northern and central Iraq in June. The U.S. Central Command said says it conducted a total of 127 air strikes across Iraq so far in an effort to end the carnage from the Islamic State
