ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish Peshmerga forces found the corpses of 20 Islamic State (ISIS) militants Monday morning outside a village near the town of Gwer, a commander said.
“This morning, as we were going through the villages that were liberated yesterday, we found the dead bodies of 20 ISIS militants a few kilometers outside the village of Saqiya,” Captain Amin Gelejali of the Sulaimani 1st command told Rudaw.
“We also captured a wounded militant who asked us for water in Kurdish,” he added.
Cpt. Gelejali said his forces are in the process of burying the bodies near the village.
In a major assault on ISIS positions Sunday Peshmerga forces captured eight villages near the town of Gwer, which lies between Erbil and Mosul, killing a dozen militants and destroying several vehicles.
Peshmerga leaders said that two of the villages are Kurdish and the rest populated by local Arab tribes.
