Iraq: 1,600 Kurdish fighters killed in the fight against IU

Some 1,600 Kurdish fighters (peshmergas) have been killed since June 2014 in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq, Kurdish officials said.

Halgord Hekmat, spokesman for the ministry in charge of these forces in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, had initially said that this assessment applied to the offensive launched on October 17 on the jihadist stronghold of Mosul before correcting his remarks . The ministry’s secretary-general, Jabar Yawar, confirmed that this assessment has been applied to fighting against the IE in two and a half years.