Kirkuk, Iraq: Two Pethpga Kurdish Iraqi fighters were killed on Saturday in an attack near the North Province Kurdistan blamed the Islamic State group, the authorities said in the autonomous region.
Checkpoint near the provincial boundary at ZERGA Zaour, 55 kilometers (30 miles) northwest of Kirkuk, ambushed and “Two fighters Peshmerga Martyred” said the authorities.
They associated the attack was “terrorist”.
Violence Saturday came four days after another attack, also blamed was, which left 15 people dead in the dominant Shia village in East Iraq Diyala Province.
In 2017, Iraq said the victory over was to recover the group of controlling for three years.
But Islamic extremists remain active and in July claimed an attack that killed around 30 people in the market in the Shia from the city of Sadr Baghdad.