Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have launched a series of attacks in Iraq’s restive region, killing dozens of people, including several Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers.
Sources told Al Jazeera that at least 16 Peshmerga soldiers were killed on Thursday trying to repel an ISIL attack on the Mosul Dam in Nineveh province.
The dam, located on the Tigris river, provides electricity to north-western province of Anbar, which is under the ISIL group’s control.
In another attack, seven fighters from militias fighting against ISIL in Diyala Province were killed in the town of Al Mansuriya.