ARBIL, Iraq (HRNW) – Five Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters were killed and four wounded in a roadside bombing blamed on jihadists of the Islamic State group, regional authorities said on Sunday.
The Saturday evening bombing south of the city of Sulaimaniyah underlined the “serious threat” IS still poses to the Kurdistan region four years after the Iraqi government declared victory over the jihadists, the region’s prime minister Masrour Barzani said.
The region’s peshmerga ministry said the slain fighters who were hit had been on their way to reinforce comrades who had come under attack by IS fighters.
“We have warned time and again about the dangers posed by the Islamic State group terrorists,” Barzani said.
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