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'Islamic State fighters were less than 1km away'

The autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq has a 620-mile (1,000km) frontline with so-called Islamic State.

BBC Middle East correspondent Orla Guerin has been embedded with Kurdish Peshmerga troops there and describes the reality of filming in a war zone in range of IS mortars.

Photo: Orla Guerin in Iraq. Credit: BBC

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