Islamic State continues its offensive in Kirkuk

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Islamic State continues its offensive in Kirkuk

Instead, the official Iraqi media have reported that government forces have managed to repel the attack on Kirkuk.

Iraqi military offensive against the Islamic state.

The militias of the Islamic State continues Saturday with the offensive on the Iraqi city of Mosul, in northern Iraq, following the attack on Friday in which they used suicide bombers and car bombs to take up to seven neighborhoods of the town, as has informed the Russian Ministry of Defense.
"Yesterday the fighters of the Islamic State of groups that are in Mosul attacked the city of Kirkuk, located 140 kilometers east of Mosul, were seven districts of the city and today continue the offensive," said a source Defense quoted by the Russian news agency Sputnik.
Meanwhile, the official Iraqi media have reported that government forces have managed to repel the attack on Kirkuk. The attack provoked an immediate declaration of a curfew across the city throughout the day yesterday, when jihadists tried to take by force the headquarters of the police and other institutional buildings.
At the moment, the death toll is 18, most of them members of the security forces and personnel of a power plant that jihadists invaded during the first moments of the attack