Nearly 1,000 Iraq Kurds killed fighting ISIS since June
The ministry responsible for the peshmerga said 4,569 Kurdish fighters were also wounded between June 10 and Feb. 3
Nearly 1,000 Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters have been killed fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militant group since June, a senior security official said on Wednesday.
Jabbar Yawar, the secretary general of the ministry responsible for the peshmerga, said that 4,569 Kurdish fighters were also wounded between June 10 and Feb. 3.
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