An attack by Islamic State (IS) fighters on the Mosul Dam on the Tigris river leads to the death of 16 Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers. The dam provides electricity to part of the Anbar province, which was under IS’s control at the time. In August 2014, the dam is seized by Kurdish and Iraqi government forces from IS, who had taken control of it weeks earlier. The 1,200 families who are said to have been operating the dam mostly fled when IS seized power in fear that the dam would be used to flood downstream communities.
