Two peshmergas, Kurdish Iraqi troops, were killed on Saturday in an attack in northern Iraq's Kurdistan autonomous province racked by ISIS violence, local authorities said.
A peshmerga force was ambushed at Zerga Zaour, 55 kilometers northwest of Kirkuk and "two peshmerga fighters were martyred", provincial authorities stated, blaming ISIS "terrorists".
Saturday's attack came four days after another, likewise blamed on ISIS, which left 15 dead in a predominantly Shiite village in Diyala province in eastern Iraq.
In 2017, Iraq declared victory over the extremists having recovered the territory the group had controlled for three years. But the group remains active and in July claimed an attack that killed about 30 people at a market in a Shiite part of Baghdad's Sadr City.
