Kurdish Peshmarga forces repulsed three attacks by the ISIL Takfiri group in the strategic Northern Iraqi town of Sinjar on Saturday, killing and injuring a large number of ISIL terrorists, a Peshmarga source said.
“ISIL militants launched three assaults on Peshmarga bases inside Sinjar (also known as Shingal), but we repulsed all the futile assaults,” the source said.
He further added that the Takfiri militants used heavy weapons during the clashes and sufferd major losses.
Since June 2014, Northern, Western and Central provinces of Iraq have been the scene of insurgency posed by the ISIL terrorists who attacked army bases in summer and occupied vast areas in Nineveh, Anbar and Salahuddin provinces, including Mosul, Tikrit and Fallujah.
Army soldiers and populace forces, form both Shiite and Sunni tribes, as well as Kurdish Pishmarga decided to grow united against the new wave of militancy in the country.
Army officials had previously announced that insurgency in the country will be eradicated by the current yearend.
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