Kurdish security forces on Monday fought back the Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq’s oil-rich province of Kirkuk, while the Iraqi forces continued their battles against the extremist militants in the country’s central province of Salahudin, security source said. In Iraq’s northern province of Kirkuk, the Kurdish security forces, known as Peshmerga, repelled an attack by the IS militants on two villages near the town Daqouq, some 40 km south of the provincial capital city of Kirkuk, leaving at least five Peshmerga members killed and 16 others wounded, a Kurdish security source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The extremist militants started their attack with suicide bombers and mortar barrage on the Peshmerga positions in the two villages and were followed with dozens of IS militants armed with machine guns and rocket propelled grenades, the source said without giving further details about the IS […]