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| Kurdish Peshmerga |
MOSUL, Iraq, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Kurdish security forces, known as Peshmerga, freed Monday a town from the Islamic State (IS) militants near the city of Mosul, a Kurdish security source said.
The Peshmerga forces, backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, started in the morning their operation to storm the town of Bashiqah, some 30 km northeast of Mosul, and managed to seize the town after fierce clashes during the day, the source from Peshmerga told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
"About 10 suicide bombers have blown themselves up inside Bashiqah after the Peshmerga fighters surrounded their hideouts," the source said.
Sporadic clashes are still underway against small groups of the IS militants in a few pockets at the outskirts of the town, while explosive experts were defusing many landmines and booby traps planted earlier by the IS group, the source said.
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