Kurdish peshmerga fighters are rolling into new territory in Iraq and they're coming in from the sky too.<br/> <br />Together with Iraqi soldiers and Shi'ite militia, the fighters say they're making gains against Islamic State.<br/> <br />On Sunday they retook two towns north of Baghdad from IS fighters, driving them from strongholds they had held for months -- and clearing a main road from the capital to Iran.<br/> <br />It's a battle that comes with a cost. The advance left at least 10 soldiers, peshmerga and militia fighters dead and 32 wounded.<br/> <br />It's unclear how many IS fighters were killed.<br/> <br />Iraq's Shi'ite-led government, backed by U.S.-led air strikes, has been trying to push back the IS since it swept through mainly Sunni Muslim provinces of northern Iraq in June, meeting virtually no resistance.
