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It's introduced by Kate Aide.

Today Pakistan is in turmoil again.

What's really behind it?

We visit the silent hospital wards of Israel.

In a museum, our man comes face to face with President Putin, but is unnerved by his skin, and the popular board game that urged German soldiers in the trenches to stay calm. The government has announced that it'll be

sending weapons directly to Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State

militants. Up to now the UK has sent humanitarian aid and non-lethal military equipment.

The Americans have continued to use drones to target IS fighters.

This has helped Iraqi government and Kurdish forces retake some territory lost to

IS in the last few months. Gabriel Gatehouse has just been spending a nervous time

with fighters in northern Iraq.

The road is a hundred percent safe, said Ali, as he unfurled a large map.

Here are we, he pointed, this is Amelie, an Islamic State are still here, here and here.

He jabbed with his finger.

It all looked uncomfortably close.

Ali, a former officer in Saddam Hussein's army, now a commander in the Badar Brigade, a Shia militia group which is trained and funded by Iran.

Ali, an ethnic Turkmen from Amalie, a besieged Shea town surrounded by Sunni villages.

We set off following Ali's pickup truck packed with fighters wielding guns and rocket-propelled grenades.

The day before, with the help of American airstrikes,

the militia had punched a hole through the ring of Islamic State fighters

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