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20/08/2017 GMT

Iraqi Campaign Against Islamic State Group

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Iraqi government announces operation against Islamic State in the town of Tal Afar

The Iraqi government has announced that ground forces have begun an operation to retake Tal Afar, one of the last cities in the country still held by the Islamic State group. In a televised speech announcing the offensive overnight, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the jihadists had the choice between "surrender or die".

Also in the programme; a historians perspective on the identity wars unfolding in the US over statues of confederate civil war figures and; leaders of the civil rights struggle offer tributes to Dick Gregory, the first African American comedian to regularly perform in front of white audiences.

Photo: Iraqi government forces drive down a road leading to Tal Afar. Credit: Mohamed el Shahed/AFP/Getty Images

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