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| Iraq |
| Iraqi forces, Kurdish Peshmerga retake northern village from ISIS fighters |
| 2021-12-07 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have recaptured a village in northern Iraq on Monday after ISIS bully boyz took it over the previous day, security and police sources said. Elite Iraq interior ministry forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters managed on early Monday to control Luhaiban village, though the bully boyz have left some houses booby-trapped with bombs, the sources said. In a separate attack on Sunday, ISIS bully boyz killed four Peshmerga soldiers and a civilian, and maimed six other people when they attacked Qara Salem village in northern Iraq, security sources said. The Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs said in a statement that the attack caused casualties, but did not confirm the toll. Peshmerga are the military forces of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan. One Peshmerga colonel said ISIS fighters were using hit-and-run tactics in night attacks on their positions. "They avoid holding the ground for longer time ... More reinforcement forces were dispatched to the area to prevent further attacks," the colonel said. Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters reinforced their troops in the area on Monday where the attacks had been carried out by bad boy group with Iraqi military helicopters flying over to chase bad boys, two Iraqi security sources said. The two villages are in remote territory claimed by the Iraqi government in Baghdad and the government of the autonomous northern Kurdish region in Erbil where there are regular attacks by ISIS. But it is a rare incident of ISIS bully boyz controlling a residential area near a main road, a highway that links Erbil to the city of Kirkuk. |
| Posted by:Fred |