One Peshmerga dies after bomb explodes in Diyala, Iraq

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – A Peshmerga fighter was killed Wednesday by a planted bomb exploded near Jalawla in Iraq’s Diyala province.

 

A police commander in Garmian, north of Jalawla, stated that the Peshmerga fighter Ismail Hama Omar was transferred to a hospital in Garmian’s capital of Kalar where he died from his injures.

 

Omar was a native of Qaladze in northeastern Kurdistan.

 

As of mid-July, the Peshmerga had lost 1,745 fighters and sustained 10,069 injuries.

 

Jalawla, also called Gulala by the Kurds and located near the Iranian border, fell to ISIS militants in June 2014. The Kurdish forces recaptured the city in November that year after three months of fierce fighting.