More than 200 IS jihadists died in Iraq violence: US

Washington: US military spokesman said on Friday, more than 200 Islamic State jihadists were killed and around 187 people last count by US-led alliance aircraft during a struggle in Iraq this week. Baghdad-based Colonel Steve Warren, who represents the US-led coalition that is attacking the IS group in Iraq and Syria, said about 500 jihadists had carried out an violence against Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces in the northern province of Nineveh on Wednesday. Alliance aircraft from five nations responded and dropped nearly 100 bombs during the overnight fight, he added. The multi-pronged IS violence saw jihadist fighters target several areas including base housing Turkish soldiers that has been at the heart of a bitter dispute between Baghdad and Ankara. Peshmerga forces repelled coordinated attacks in Nawaran, Bashiqa, Tal Aswad, Khazr and Zardik, the Kurdistan Regional Security Council (KRSC) has said. Warren told  excessively of the battle took place in Tal Aswad. The KRSC, which is headed by de facto regional president Massud Barzani`s son Masrour, told that more than 70 IS members were died in the attacks. Warren said Canadian special operations squad, who are in Iraq to assist train Kurdish fighters, helped in the fight on the ground.