Kurdish Army Retake Seven Villages From ISIL
Iraq's Kurdish Peshmerga forces (file photo)
KABUL: (Middle East Press) Kurdish Peshmerga forces have successfully captured seven villages in the northern part of Iraq near the town of Tuz Khurmatu since August 26 from ISIL Takfiri militants, the US-led Combined Joint Task Force announced on Friday.
In a separate development, more than a dozen ISIL Takfiri militants have been killed in infighting over the distribution of property stolen during attacks in Iraq’s embattled northern city of Mosul.
The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) spokesman in Mosul, Saeed Mamouzini, told Arabic-language al-Sumaria satellite television network on Friday that members of the ISIL-linked Abu Abdulrahman al-Ofri and Abu Janah al-Mosuli terrorist groups turned on each other following disagreement over property and money in the Baaj district of militant-held Mosul, in northwest of the capital, Baghdad.
Mamouzini said the terrorists then exchanged heavy gunfire, resulting in the death of 17 militants.
Also on Friday, eleven civilians sustained injuries when Daesh Takfiris launched a number of mortar shells and artillery rounds on Amiriyah Fallujah city, situated roughly 40 kilometers (24 miles) west of Baghdad. Five women and three children were among the casualties of the terrorist attack.
