Islamic State militants struck at Kurdish forces in the northern province of Kirkuk on Friday (January 30). Police said Islamic State launched mortars and attacked positions of Kurdish fighters in four districts southwest of Kirkuk city. Militants later detonated a car bomb at a disused hotel in Kirkuk city centre and clashed with peshmerga forces. Kurdish forces later found the body of a militant in the hotel and threw the body over a balcony down […]





