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US troops have parachuted into Iraq to support Kurdish peshmerga fighters in their battle against ISIS, it has been reported.

The soldiers have landed on the outskirts of terrorist stronghold Mosul, according to a Facebook page affiliated to the Kurd militants.

A source said the 1,000 troops landed near Rabia and have been arriving since Sunday.

The claims could not immediately be verified. The message was criticised by commenters, who said announcing it compromised the US offensive The post disappeared soon after.

Kurdish forces are already working with the US-led coalition and the Iraqi Army in their battle against ISIS.

Ground forces have seized about 80 per cent of the territory surrounding Mosul dam, Peshmerga spokesman Holgurt Hikme told the Financial Times .

"US planes are still bombing and an Iraqi army brigade has advanced along with peshmerga forces," said Mr Hikmet.

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US Central Command said it carried out 14 air strikes on Sunday using fighters, drones and bombers.

Recently Turkey. which borders Syria, allowed US forces to operate from its air bases.

Meanwhie, Iraq's former prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, yesterday denounced a parliamentary report which blamed him and others for the fall of Mosul to Islamic State last year as worthless.

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"There is no value to the results that came out of the parliamentary investigation committee", Maliki said on Facebook in his first public comments since the report was released on Sunday and referred to the public prosecutor on Monday.

Maliki, whose website says he has been in Iran since Friday, said political differences in the panel compromised its objectivity.

By seeking to provide accountability for the loss of majority-Sunni Mosul, the report could help restore confidence in the Shi'ite-led government, especially among Sunni Muslims marginalised by Maliki's divisive politics.

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