An attack by Islamic State militants on a village in northern Iraq on Friday killed at least 13 people including three villagers and 10 Kurdish soldiers, officials in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region said.
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The attack took place in the Makhmour region, a hotbed for Islamic State activity that sees regular attacks against Kurdish forces, Iraqi forces and often civilians.
Makhmour is a mountainous area some 70 kilometers (45 miles) southeast of Mosul and 60 km (40 miles) southwest of the Kurdish capital of Erbil.
A statement from the Kurdistan region's armed forces, the peshmerga, said that Islamic State militants attacked the village killing three residents and that Peshmerga forces intervened, resulting in clashes that killed 10 of their soldiers.
