Peshmerga forces kill 13 ISIL Takfiris in north Iraq
Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces have engaged members of the ISIL Takfiri group in Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh, killing more than a dozen of the terrorists.
The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) spokesman in Mosul, Saeed Mamouzini, said Peshmerga fighters killed 13 ISIL members during heavy exchanges of fire with the Takfiris east of the militant-held city of Mosul, situated some 400 kilometers (248 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad, on Monday, Iraq’s al-Sumaria satellite TV network reported.
Mamouzini noted that the clashes lasted more than an hour.
Kurdish forces are fighting the ISIL Takfiri group in several areas across Iraq and Syria and have inflicted heavy losses on them.
On Saturday, ISIL Takfiris executed five more Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in Hammam al-Alil area, located some 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) south of Mosul.
ISIL also released a video on March 19, showing the purported beheading of three Peshmerga soldiers identified as Rezkar Mohammad Saleh, Pishtiwan Osman Rasul, and Hisham Nabil Khorshid.
The three victims were dressed in orange outfits, and are beheaded in three different locations with masked knife-wielding Takfiri militants speaking Kurdish.
In February, the Takfiri terrorists released a video that showed 21 Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in cages being paraded through streets in the Iraqi province of Kirkuk.
The nine-minute footage showed the orange jumpsuit-clad prisoners being interviewed by an ISIL militant holding a microphone with the group’s insignia, before being seemingly taken to a location to be killed.
The prisoners were driven one by one on the back of pick-up trucks with ISIL militants accompanying each prisoner.
ISIL started its campaign of terror in Iraq in early June 2014. The heavily-armed militants took control of the country’s northern city of Mosul before sweeping through parts of the country’s Sunni Arab heartland.
Iraqi soldiers, police units, Kurdish forces, Shia volunteers and Sunni tribesmen have succeeded in driving the ISIL terrorists out of some areas in Iraq.
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