IS kills 28 Iraqi Kurdish security forces in surprise attack
Xinhua, January 11, 2015 Adjust font size:
About 28 members of Iraqi Kurdish security forces were killed Saturday in an attack by the Islamic State (IS) militant group, a security source said.
A Kurdish security source told Xinhua that IS militants attacked the Kurdish positions by surprise from nine fronts in the early hours of Saturday on the town of Gwer, some 400 km north of Baghdad, killing about 28 members of Kurdish security forces.
The source said that the militants reached Gwer by crossing the Tigris and Ze rivers on boats, and had controlled the area for about one hour before being pushed back by the Kurdish security forces.
A total of 45 IS militants were killed in the clashes, the source added.
Large parts of the province have been under IS control since June 11, a day after bloody clashes broke out between Iraqi security forces and the terrorist group that took control of the country's northern city of Mosul, and later seized swathes of territories in Nineveh and other predominantly Sunni provinces. Enditem