6 IS militants killed in operations in Iraq: military

Iraqi forces on Sunday killed six Islamic State (IS) militants
in separate military operations in the north and west of the
country, the military said, Trend reports citing Xinhua.

Acting on intelligence reports, the paramilitary Hashd Shaabi
forces conducted an operation in the Albu-Saif suburb south of
Mosul, the capital of the northern province of Nineveh, killing
four IS militants, said a statement by the media office of the
Joint Operations Command.

The state-sponsored Hashd Shaabi forces surrounded the suburb
and were searching for another IS militant hiding in the area,
according to the statement.

In the northern province of Kirkuk, a joint force of the Iraqi
government army and the Hashd Shaabi killed an IS suicide bomber
wearing an explosive belt and wounded another during a second
operation in a rugged area south of the namesake capital city of
Kirkuk, a source from the Kirkuk Operations Command told
Xinhua.

IS militants attacked shepherds near a village south of the
Kirkuk city, killing one of them and wounding two others before
fleeing the scene, the source said on condition of anonymity.