BAGHDAD: Five Kurdish security members known as Peshmerga were killed in an overnight attack by the militants of the extremist Islamic State (IS) group in northeastern Iraq, a Kurdish security source has said.
Azad al-Dalawi, an officer from the Peshmerga, said a group of IS militants attacked late on Saturday evening a Kurdish security base in the Kolajo area in the northern part of Diyala province, sparking a fierce clash between the two sides that lasted until dawn on Sunday, Xinhua news agency reported.
The Peshmerga soldiers finally managed to repel the assailants, said al-Dalawi. The clash resulted in the killing of five Peshmerga members and the wounding of five others, along with the destruction of a military vehicle, he added. (IANS)
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