Militants Kill Shepherd and Steal Flock; 18 Killed in Iraq

Peshmerga reopened a highway that links Erbil with Kirkuk. However, the Iraqi government maintains checkpoints on the part of the road that is in territory currently held by Iraq.

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An official in Nineveh province said that a recently discovered mass gravecontaining 40 Christian victims is decades old.

At least 18 people were killed or found dead, and six more were wounded in recent violence:

ISIS militants killed a shepherd near Kifri, and stole his flock of sheep. A roadside bomb wounded three Peshmerga members who arrived to investigate.

In Abu Ghraib, a bomb killed one person and wounded two more at a market.

Eight militants were killed in an airstrike on Atshana mountain.

Security forces killed four militants at Tal Safuk.

In Makhmour, three militants were killed.

A militant was killed in Saaduonia.