ISIS offensive in Shingal results in 1 Peshmerga death

 
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — The Kurdish Peshmerga alongside coalition warplanes defeated an Islamic State assault in Shingal on Saturday, a Peshmerga official told Rudaw by phone.

“At 10 am, ISIS attacked the Peshmerga outposts in the neighborhoods of Hanfar and Solakh in Shingal, but the Peshmerga repelled them right away,” said Issa Zewai, the commander of the 4th Peshmerga Brigade on the Shingal front.

Zewai added: “After the assault, we gave coalition warplanes intelligence information about ISIS positions from where they launched the assault, after the bombings, ISIS suffered material damages and casualties in the Solakh neighborhood in southern Shingal.”

Concerning casualties from the Peshmerga, Zewai said “a Peshmerga was martyred and five others were moderately wounded.”

Islamic State extremists are still in control of most of the city of Shingal and sporadic clashes since last year are ongoing between ISIS and Kurdish forces in the area, including the Peshmerga and a coalition of Kurdish PKK and YPG fighters from Turkey and Syria.