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(ISIS) gunnies attacked Kurdish Peshmerga forces for the third consecutive night in Diyala province, one Peshmerga source told Rudaw on Monday, the same night a sixth Peshmerga died from Saturday’s attack in the province.
Six ISIS gunnies on cycle of violences attacked Peshmerga in a village near Kifri district, Peshmerga commander Brigadier General Dler Mahmood told Rudaw on Monday.
One Peshmerga was killed and three were maimed in the attack, Rebwar Mohammed, head of the emergency wing of Kifri’s Shahid Khalid hospital, told Rudaw on Monday.
This is the third night in a row that Peshmerga have been attacked in Diyala province. In a Saturday attack in the province, six Peshmerga died and four were maimed. The sixth, Omer Tofiq, died on Monday due to his injuries, a close relative told Rudaw’s Zhyar Hakim.
Tofiq, who has been a Peshmerga since 2004, left behind five children.
Families of some of the other five Peshmerga killed on Saturday, named as Ismael Mohammed, 61, Amin Hussein, 33, Ibrahim Baran, 40, Aras Samin and Nabard Saeed, have told Rudaw of their grief.
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This is the third attack of its kind on the Peshmerga in the Garmyan administration since Saturday evening.
Peshmerga launches a security operation near Kolju
[SHAFAQ] Peshmerga forces launched a security operation in the Kolju and Garmsir axis, a source revealed on Monday.
The source told Shafaq News Agency that the 4th and 5th Peshmerga brigades carried out a search and clear campaign to eradicate ISIS remnants sheltering in the territory.
"The operations cover the vast areas between Kafri, Kolju, and the disputed territories," the source added.
The operation comes only two days after the terrorist attack in Kolju that killed five Peshmerga fighters and injured four others.
ISIS claims deadly attack on Peshmerga forces in Diyala
[Rudaw] The Islamic State group (ISIS) late on Sunday claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on the Peshmerga in Diyala province, releasing a statement less than two hours after the Kurdish force said the militants carried out another assault on their position in the same region.
Five Peshmerga were killed and five others injured in an attack in the Kolajo sub-district on Saturday night. In a statement on its propaganda Telegram channel late on Sunday, ISIS said their militants carried out the attack.
The Peshmerga fought off another ISIS attack on a checkpoint in Kifri, Diyala province late on Sunday, the Peshmerga ministry said in a tweet. There are no reports of injuries or casualties.
ISIS has carried out five attacks on the Peshmerga in the past month, killing seven Kurdish soldiers.
Earlier this month, ISIS claimed responsibility for a late October attack in which two Peshmerga were killed on the Erbil-Kirkuk border. A few days later, the Peshmerga repelled another attack in the same area. ISIS also attacked Peshmerga forces on the Kifri-Garmaser border between Sulaimani and Diyala provinces earlier this month.
Peshmerga officials have blamed the deadly ISIS attacks on a lack of coordination between them and Iraqi forces in the disputed areas. Efforts to form joint brigades in the disputed areas began earlier this year, but have stalled. The gap between Peshmerga and Iraqi forces is up to 40 kilometres wide in parts. “ISIS has been able to exploit the lack of coordination between forces to operate in the ungoverned territory,” the Pentagon stated in its latest report on anti-ISIS operations.
Iraqi security forces on November 3 launched an operation in northeastern Diyala province to clear out terror elements following an ISIS attack that left more than a dozen of the area’s residents dead and several others injured.
In the latest edition of its weekly propaganda magazine al-Nabaa, ISIS claimed it carried out eight attacks in Iraq, killing and injuring 20 people.