Smoke billows on the front line near Hasan Sham village, some 45 kilometres east of the city of Mosul, during a military operation by Iraqi Kurdish forces aimed at retaking areas from the Islamic State group on May 29, 2016. The "peshmerga-led ground offensive, backed by international coalition warplanes" started before dawn, the Kurdistan Region Security Council (KRSC) said. The fresh push against the jihadist organisation comes a week after Iraqi forces launched an operation against Fallujah, IS's only other major urban hub in Iraq. / AFP / SAFIN HAMED (Photo credit should read SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)