KIRKUK / NINA / The Peshmerga forces and the popular Mobilization liberated on Thursday four villages in the district of Tuz south of Kirkuk from the IS control.

Mayor of Tuz district Shallal Abdul said that the Peshmerga forces and the popular mobilization managed, with the support of the air force and artillery, to liberate villages of Yankicha, Angley, Abboud and Za Rqa from the IS gunmen control.

He added that the troops advancing to liberate the rest of the areas under the IS control, and that the gunmen of the Islamic state fled from their areas and left the bodies of their dead behind them.

The five other villages belonging to Tuz has been liberated yesterday ./End