SULAIMANI (ESTA) — U.S.-led Coalition Forces bombed positions belonging to Islamic State (ISIS) militants in Kirkuk province on Saturday, a security source said.
“In coordination with Peshmerga forces and the Iraqi military, the Coalition forces bombed several places in Palkana and Ghara,” the source told Esta Media Network.
Esta Media Network had learned that the Iraqi military and the Peshmerga forces had launched a joint operation to clear the area of ISIS militants.
The Iraqi military and Peshmerga forces have established a joint operation room in Baghdad to exchange intelligence and information and to carry out joint operations against ISIS militants in the province.
Two other joint operation rooms were established in Khanaqin and Makhmour.
Following attacks by Islamic State (ISIS) militants against the Iraqi and Kurdish forces in disputed territories, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi ordered establishing joint operations rooms in those areas to prevent further attacks.
Kurdish officials have warned that ISIS militants are using a “security vacuum” between the Iraqi and Kurdish forces to carry out attacks in the disputed territories.
ISIS militants attacked the Peshmerga forces near Prde town south of Erbil and in Kifri district in Diyala province in May.
Four members of the Peshmerga forces were killed and three others wounded in the attacks, according to Peshmerga officials.
Iraq declared victory over Islamic State in December 2017 but the militants have regrouped in the Hamrin mountain range which extends into the northern provinces – an area described by officials as a “triangle of death”.
