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2022-01-08 Iraq
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Peshmerga forces attacked with rockets on Erbil-Kirkuk border: sources
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[Rudaw] Peshmerga forces in Pirde (Altun Kupri) town, Kirkuk province came under attack late Friday, according to a commander and Kurdistan Region’s counter-terrorism forces. No casualties have been reported.
Nuri Hama Ali, a Peshmerga commander in Pirde, told Rudaw that a number of rockets were directed at Peshmerga bases in the district but none of them hit their target and did not cause any casualties.
Kurdistan Region’s counter-terrorism units also reported the attack, saying "eight Katyusha rockets landed near Fifth Front [of Peshmerga] in Pirde, Kirkuk without causing material damage or casualties."
Peshmerga ministry confirmed that the attack did not cause any losses, saying that they have launched an investigation into the incident.
Pirde district is about 40 kilometres northwest of Kirkuk. Peshmerga forces have been targeted by the 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) there several times late last year. Over 20 members of Peshmerga forces were killed as a result of the assaults.
A Peshmerga fighter was shot and injured by an unidentified gunman in Kirkuk on Friday.
ISIS killed two Peshmerga fighters, Khalid Hameed and Ako Karim, on October 30 in Pirde’s Zorgazraw area.
Iraqi security forces arrested seven ISIS suspects in Kirkuk on Friday, according to Security Media Cell which claimed that they "confessed" to have committed crime in Kirkuk and Anbar provinces.
Peshmerga fighter wounded in Kirkuk: official
[Rudaw] A Peshmerga fighter was shot and injured by an unidentified man in Kirkuk in the early hours of Friday morning, an official source confirmed to Rudaw.
"Two bullets were fired from an unknown location which slightly maimed a Peshmerga fighter," Sarkawt Chimany, a commander of the Peshmerga forces, told Rudaw following the incident which took place in the Khasa dam in Kirkuk's Kochak village.
According to Chimany, the Peshmerga fighters within the brigade are on high alert. "We fired back and sent the attackers fleeing," he said.
The village's Facebook page claims that the Peshmerga fighter was maimed by a sniper rifle.
No group has grabbed credit for the shooting yet. 
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