ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Airstrikes launched by the US-led coalition to fight the Islamic State, or ISIS, killed 30 extremist fighters on Monday in villages near the town of Daquq, a local police official told Rudaw.
Brigadier Sarhad Qadir, chief of Kirkuk province suburban police, told Rudaw the warplanes targeted ISIS positions in Tal Rabaa and Tal Abu Raseen villages, destroying a military bases inside a local home and killing the ISIS fighters on the premises.
Kurdish Peshmerga forces have been able to drive ISIS out of at least 40 villages in Kirkuk province since the jihadists pushed into the area last summer.
