ISIS assault on Bashik front repelled

 
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — At least 200 ISIS militants launched a large-scale midnight assault on the Peshmerga frontlines on the Bashik front between Erbil and Mosul, a Peshmerga official at the scene told Rudaw Tuesday morning.
 
“An estimated 200 militants attacked the Peshmerga frontlines on the Bashik front. Clashes stretched across different areas on the font and lasted till dawn,” Captain Aziz Ahmed, a Peshmerga commander, said. “Three ISIS militants were killed, and the Peshmerga did not suffer casualties.”

“ISIS leaders were putting pressure on the militants to advance into the Peshmerga stockades, but their militants were saying on the phone ‘we cannot advance, because they [Peshmerga] will not allow us and their frontlines are well fortified,” Ahmed claimed. He added this intel came after a wireless device from one of the dead militants was left behind.
 
“ISIS prepared a vehicle bomb equipped with bombs and ammunition to target the Peshmerga, but they failed to do so,” he continued.