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Iraqi security forces, supported by aircraft, repelled militant attack on the northern Shi’ite Turkmen town of Amirli, killing 15 extremists, local officials said on Thursday.
The attack of Islamic State (IS) militants and allied Sunni extremists on Amirli took place on Wedesday,Talib al-Bayati, an official from Suleiman Bek, said.
“Iraqi forces, with the help of military aircraft, repelled an attack on Amirli on three sides and killed 15 gunmen, according to an initial toll”, he said.
Amirli is to the south of Sulieman Bek, a town that had fallen to last month’s IS-led militant drive. On Wednesday, IS gunmen were driven out of three districts in the city Baquba, capital of the province Diyala, medical and security sources said. Reportedly, two security force members were killed and 11 others were wounded in the violence.
On Thursday, a suicide car bomb blew up a police checkpoint in the town of Taji, some 25 kilometers to the north of Baghdad, killing a civilian and two policemen, sources said.
A roadside bomb in a central market in Baghdad blew up outside a Shi’ite prayer hall, killing three and wounding ten people, medical and security sources said.
In northern Iraq, the commander of the Kurdish peshmerga forces in Kirkuk and his six bodyguards were wounded in clashes with IS militants that had broken out on Wednesday.
A security source had anonymously stated that the “Peshmerga Brigadier General Shirko Rauf was wounded with six of his bodyguards this afternoon in clashes in western Kirkuk”.
“The clashes have been ongoing since yesterday, and have resulted in the deaths of two peshmerga and the wounding of 53 others. Around 20 gunmen belonging to Daash were killed”, the anonymous source added.
