Iraqi-Peshmerga forces jointly secure village attacked by ISIS in northern Iraq
ERBIL, KRG, Iraq (North Press) – A joint military force of the Iraqi army and the Peshmerga will deploy to secure a village in north of Kirkuk after it was attacked by the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) yesterday, the Iraqi Security Media Cell announced, on Monday.
ISIS militants attacked the village of Lahiban, north of Kirkuk, displaced the villagers and burned down some houses, media reports said yesterday.
The joint security forces are working to return the residents of the village of Lahiban, which was threatened by ISIS militants, the Media Cell said in a statement.
The necessary protection of the area was secured by the forces of the Division 14 of the Iraqi army, and a force from the Fifth axis – Peshmerga, according to what was stated in the security statement.
The statement denied what was circulated by some media and social networking sites about ISIS burning a number of citizens’ homes in this village.
Following a meeting with the French Ambassador to Iraq Eric Chevalier, the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Masrour Barzani stressed the importance of strengthening coordination between the Peshmerga, the Iraqi army and the Global Coalition to end ISIS attacks on the residents of the disputed areas.
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These attacks are part of the ongoing attacks on the residents of those areas and aim to evacuate and bring about a demographic change in them, Barzani said.
The residents of this area and other disputed areas, which extend from Khanaqin in the east to Sinjar in the west, suffer from ISIS threats, despite attempts to curb them.
The Ministry of Peshmerga announced yesterday that a number of its members had been killed in an ISIS attack on the village of Qara Salem, north of Kirkuk.
On November 2, ISIS launched a violent attack on the village of Khedr Jija in Makhmur district. Three civilians (brothers) and ten Peshmerga members were killed.
Last week, the Garmiyan areas in south of Sulaymaniyah, was attacked three times by the extremist jihadists (ISIS), where seven Peshmerga members were killed and others were wounded.
Last week, the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Peshmerga in the Kurdistan Regional Government, Jabar Yawar, revealed that 4,657 people were killed, wounded and kidnapped, both civilians and fighters, as victims of 1,162 ISIS operations in Iraq from the beginning of 2018 until the end of October of this year, 2021.