The Islamic State (IS) attacked Kurdistan Area forces and civilians in northern Iraq at the moment, in response to native media.
IS fighters fired rocket-propelled grenades at villages within the city of Makhmour. There have been casualties amongst members of the Kurdistan Area’s peshmerga forces and civilians, the Kurdish information outlet Rudaw reported. The US government-funded information outlet Al-Hurra reported that eight peshmerga troopers and three civilians had been killed. The Iraqi information outlet Al-Sumaria reported three civilians died within the assault.
A US-led worldwide coalition, working with Iraqi federal and Kurdistan Area forces, defeated IS in 2017. The group has continued to hold out small-scale assaults since then, notably in areas disputed between the federal and Kurdistan Area governments. Makhmour is one in every of Iraq’s disputed territories between Iraqi federal and Kurdish authorities, and each federal and Kurdistan Area forces are current within the space. Makhmour is positioned about an hour southwest of the Kurdistan Area capital Erbil.
IS has performed a very excessive variety of assaults in opposition to peshmerga forces not too long ago. IS attacked the peshmerga within the northern Diyala province on Nov. 27-29.
A report from the US Protection Division final month stated IS is especially lively alongside the Iraq-Syria border.
