Sulaimaniya/Baghdad: Iraq, the Iraqi Army and Kurdish Peshmerga Security and police sources said fighters recaptured a village in northern Iraq on Monday after Islamic State militants took it the previous day.
Elite Iraqi Interior Ministry forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters managed to control the village of Luhaiban early Monday, although militants have left some homes stocked with explosive devices, sources said.
In a separate attack on Sunday, Islamic State militants killed four Peshmerga soldiers and a civilian, and wounded six others when they attacked the village of Kara Salem in northern Iraq, security sources said.
NS ministry of peshmerga affairs A statement said there were casualties in the attack, but did not confirm the death toll.
The Peshmerga are the military forces of the Autonomous Region of Iraqi Kurdistan.
A colonel from Peshmerga said Islamic State fighters were using hit-and-run tactics in nighttime attacks on their positions.
“They avoid staying in the field for long periods of time. More reinforcements were sent to the area to prevent further attacks,” the colonel said.
Two Iraqi security sources said Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters on Monday strengthened their troops in the area where the attacks were carried out by the militant group and Iraqi military helicopters flew in to chase the militants.
The two villages are in remote areas claimed by the Iraqi government in Baghdad and the government of the autonomous northern Kurdish region in Erbil where there are regular attacks by Islamic State.
But it is a rare occurrence of Islamic State militants controlling a residential area near a main road, a highway that connects Erbil to the city. kirkuko,
Iraq declared victory over the radical Sunni terrorist group in December 2017. Although the group is largely defeated, it continues to carry out sporadic attacks and operate a limited number of cells in the country, particularly in the north.
Elite Iraqi Interior Ministry forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters managed to control the village of Luhaiban early Monday, although militants have left some homes stocked with explosive devices, sources said.
In a separate attack on Sunday, Islamic State militants killed four Peshmerga soldiers and a civilian, and wounded six others when they attacked the village of Kara Salem in northern Iraq, security sources said.
NS ministry of peshmerga affairs A statement said there were casualties in the attack, but did not confirm the death toll.
The Peshmerga are the military forces of the Autonomous Region of Iraqi Kurdistan.
A colonel from Peshmerga said Islamic State fighters were using hit-and-run tactics in nighttime attacks on their positions.
“They avoid staying in the field for long periods of time. More reinforcements were sent to the area to prevent further attacks,” the colonel said.
Two Iraqi security sources said Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters on Monday strengthened their troops in the area where the attacks were carried out by the militant group and Iraqi military helicopters flew in to chase the militants.
The two villages are in remote areas claimed by the Iraqi government in Baghdad and the government of the autonomous northern Kurdish region in Erbil where there are regular attacks by Islamic State.
But it is a rare occurrence of Islamic State militants controlling a residential area near a main road, a highway that connects Erbil to the city. kirkuko,
Iraq declared victory over the radical Sunni terrorist group in December 2017. Although the group is largely defeated, it continues to carry out sporadic attacks and operate a limited number of cells in the country, particularly in the north.
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