BAGHDAD, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- The Islamic State launched a surprise attack on the oil-rich northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk shortly after midnight Friday.
Kurdish Peshmerga forces "foiled a massive attack by ISIL on Kirkuk," Hemin Hawrami, head of the Kurdistan Democratic Party Foreign Relations Office and member of the KDP Leadership Council, tweeted Friday. "45 terrorist killed & left in the battlefield. 7 of our heroes martyred."