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KIRKUK: Fighting continues for second day between security forces and ISIS, 11 militants killed
[RUDAW.NET] Fighting has resumed for the second day in Kirkuk between security forces and a number of ISIS Death Eaters still hiding inside a school in the city.Peshmerga forces told Rudaw that they have killed three of the Death Eaters this morning and they have fully besieged the school to "kill the rest of the holy warriors," Security and anti-terrorism forces are patrolling the streets of Kirkuk in search of Death Eaters who are believed to have taken position in some homes and tall buildings. Also south of the city of Kirkuk near the town of Laylan, Peshmerga forces killed at least 11 ISIS Death Eaters after hours of intense festivities in the early hours of Saturday, police chief Sarhad Qadir told Rudaw. "In fierce festivities which lasted for two hours, 11 ISIS holy warriors, who appeared to be foreigners, were killed by the Peshmerga forces in the village of Mahmoodia near Lailan town," said Brig. Qadir, chief of Kirkuk Suburban Police. Qadir added "nine Death Eaters were killed by bullets and the other two blew themselves up." He explained "the Death Eaters belonged to the group who infiltrated Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... but later they fled the city." Terrorists entered Kirkuk in past two days, received help from sleeper cells [RUDAW.NET] In a message sent out live on Rudaw TV Saturday morning, Governor of Kirkuk Najmaldin Karim said that ISIS Death Eaters launched a "well-planned" wide terrorist attack on his city on Friday. Karim said that the attack was carried out by 35-50 faceless myrmidons "who split into subgroups and spread out in different parts of the city." He said the faceless myrmidons "managed to enter the city in the last two days and their aim was to take control of the governorate building, some police headquarters and political party headquarters." "We had prior knowledge that an operation like this could happen," the governor said. He added that the security forces had been preparing to respond to this type of attack for some time "but the timing of it was not known exactly," The Death Eaters failed to take any of the places they had planned to overrun, said Karim. "And all those who tried to take control of those places were killed by our security forces," he maintained. Iraqi forces: 48 IS attackers killed in Kirkuk [IraqSun] Iraqi security forces have killed 48 of the gunmen who stormed parts of Kirkuk in a shock attack claimed by the Islamic State group, the northern city's police chief said, according to AFP. "Forty-eight Daesh (IS) terrorists have been killed in the clashes," Brigadier General Khattab Omar Aref told AFP, adding that some of them blew themselves up when the security forces cornered them. Special counter-terrorism and intelligence units were hunting down some of the dozens of IS fighters who stormed public buildings in the early hours of Friday, October 21. Clashes have been taking place almost uninterrupted since and the city, which lies some 240 kilometres north of Baghdad, remains under curfew. A senior interior ministry official said that at least 46 other people had been killed in the IS raid and ensuing clashes, mostly members of the security forces. "The security forces control the situation now but there are still pockets of jihadists in some southern and eastern neighbourhoods," Aref said, according to AFP. "We have foiled this large Daesh plot, which was to take control of government buildings, including security headquarters," he said. "They were denied just like they are being defeated on the outskirts of Mosul," the police chief said. Splodydopes kill 16 in Kirkuk [KhaleejTimes] Gunmen wearing suicide vests attacked government targets in the Kurdish-controlled city of Kirkuk and killed 16 at an Iranian-run construction site further north on Friday as troops advanced on the Daesh bastion Mosul. Daesh claimed responsibility. "The forces of IS attacked the city of Kirkuk from all directions," the Daesh-linked Amaq news agency said, using another name for the group. In one attack, three bombers infiltrated a power plant being built by an Iranian company near Dibis, a town about 40 km northwest of Kirkuk, the mayor said. "Three suicide bombers attacked the power plant at around 6.00 am, killing 12 Iraqi administrators and engineers and four Iranian technicians," Dibis mayor Abdullah Nureddin al-Salehi told AFP. Posted by: Fred 2016-10-23 |
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