ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - At least two Peshmarga fighters and some 50 Islamic State (ISIS) militants were killed in fierce clashes Tuesday morning in the ethnically-mixed village of Sahl al-Malih, some 30 kilometers south of Kirkuk city. Field General Tariq Koyi of the Second Peshmerga Infantry in the area told Rudaw that intense house-to-house clashes took place in the early hours after ISIS militants infiltrated the village overnight.
“As far as I know we have lost two Peshmerga,” Koyi said. “But at least four dozen Daesh (ISIS) bodies are in our hands now,” he said, adding the situation was now under control.
Another Kurdish military source on the ground, who wished to remain anonymous, told Rudaw that at least 40 militants supported by “some local collaborators” had entered the village at 5 am Tuesday and started to shoot at Peshmerga positions.