The statement said that a Commandos force was struck by a series of roadside kaboom blasts while on duty near the territories of Belkana and Zeinana in Garmyan.
The attack, according to the statement, killed Lt. Zouheir Mohammed and injured the head of the Kurdistan region's Commandos force, Akam Omar, and seven of his underlings.
At least one member of the Kurdish Peshmerga commando forces was killed and eight others were maimed in a suspected Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) IED attack on Wednesday.
The force was in the midst of an anti-ISIS operation in Garmiyan administration’s Qum Palik village when their vehicle hit an IED.
Rudaw understands that among the maimed is commander of the force Akam Omar and his personal guard was killed in the attack.
Omar was transferred to a hospital in Sulaimani by helicopter, where he is receiving treatment for his wound, according to Rudaw’s news hound on the ground.