Fourteen #Kurds killed fighting off #ISIS near #Mosul
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Kurdish troops fought off a jihadi attack on an oil facility and a dam near the Iraqi city of Mosul but lost 14 of their number in intense combat, Kurdish sources said Saturday. The Islamic State, which controls the northern city, “attacked a peshmerga post in Zumar (Friday) and a fierce battle erupted,” an official in the Patriotic Union of #Kurdistan told AFP. He said 14 peshmerga fighters were killed, a toll confirmed by a senior officer in the Kurdish force. The PUK official said the peshmerga killed “around 100” IS fighters and captured 38 in a battle that lasted several hours. read more
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