8 Jihadist fighters killed when an Iraqi drone targeted a convoy of al-Qaeda renegade group in the northwest Iraqi city of Tal Afar Sunday, Zaman Alwasl source said.
Two fighters from ‘Ahrar al-Tayyaneh revolutionaries,’ Syrian rebel brigade, were among the killings, the source said.
The brigade, who based in Deir Ezzor, has pledged allegiance to The Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), Hundreds of Syrian fighters have joined the recent battles in Iraq mostly with tribal affiliations especially from the border cities with Iraq.
Despite al-Maliki's bold statements, ISIS accumulated several victories across Iraq on Sunday.
Tal Afar fell to ISIS, according to Iraqi Gen. Mohammed al-Quraishi. Many Tal Afar residents -- ethnic minority Shiite Turkmen -- fled the fighting north toward Iraq's Kurdish region. Tal Afar is in Nineveh province, midway between the country's border with Syria and Mosul, north of Baghdad, CNN reported.
Before Iraqi security forces lost Tal Afar, several mortar rounds landed on a busy area in the town and killed at least seven and wounded 33 people, security officials in Baghdad and Tal Afar told CNN.
Also Sunday, ISIS gained control of two villages in Adhaim, in its first push into Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad.
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