Arbil, Iraq: At least three civilians and seven Peshmerda Kurdi Iraqi fighters have been killed in North Iraq in an attack blamed on the Islamic Jihadist group, the troops said Friday.
Jihadists attacked Khidir Jija Village, South Arbil, on Thursday night, killing three civilians, said a statement.
Peshmerga, the Armed Forces of the Kurdistan, launched the operation in response, and seven dead fighters when “explosives planted by the element was” exploded.
Three civilians, siblings aged 11-24, are children of a village official, a relative to tell AFP.
It was confiscated by Iraqi in a flash attack in 2014, before being beaten again with a counter-rebellion campaign supported by a US-led military coalition.
The Iraqi government stated that Sunni’s extremists were defeated by the end of 2017, but the Jihadists retained sleep cells that continued to attack security forces with a hit-and-run attack.
At the end of last month, five Peshmera Kurdish Iraqi fighters were killed and four were injured in the claimed roadside bombing.
The bomb, south of the city of Sulaimaniyah, underlined “serious threats” still posed for the Ocak autonomous Kurdistan region, the prime minister said in the region Maszani at the time.