al-Imam October 30 - 3 civilians were killed and 2 others were kidnapped by IS militants attacked a group of coal diggers on the banks of the Tigris River, Abbasi district, west of Kirkuk. On the same day, Iraqi forces killed an ISIS militant and wounded another near the Riyadh district, west of Kirkuk November November 2 - A soldier of the PMF died of wounds he sustained a day earlier whilst repelling an ISIS attack in the Akbashi sector in the outskirts of Khanaqin, northeast of Baquba. November 7 - Two ISIS militants were killed and a third blew himself up during an Iraqi security operation in the western Anbar desert. November 9 - A PMF soldier was killed in a clash with IS cells at the Hatra district junction, south of Mosul. November 10 - A PMF soldier was killed in clashes with ISIS cells in Amirli, Salah al-Din. 2 civilians were also killed by ISIS gunfire during the attack. November 12 - One ISIS militant was killed and another was wounded by Iraqi security forces in Wadi al-Shay, south of Kirkuk. November 22 - An Iraqi soldier was killed and 3 others were injured after ISIS snipers targeted their military post in Ibrahim village, south of Baquba. November 25 - A soldier of the PMF was killed and a civilian was injured during an ISIS attack on the village of al-Raya'a, northeast of Baquba. November 27 - 5 Peshmerga fighters were killed and 4 others were wounded after ISIS operatives detonated a roadside bomb targeting Peshmerga fighters in the Kolju district in Garmian region of northern Iraq. December December 6 - 6 ISIS militants were killed in an Iraqi airstrike on an ISIS hideout in the Anbar desert. December 8 - 2 ISIS militants were killed in an Iraqi air force operation in the Al-Kassar area in Anbar province. December 16 – 3 Iraqi soldiers were killed and 3 others were wounded during clashes with IS forces in the Hamrin Basin, northeast of Baquba. On the same day, IS claimed responsibility for abducting and beheading Iraqi army Colonel Yasser Ali al-Jourani in the Northern Hamrin area, south of Kirkuk. They later released footage of the execution. December 20 - Iraqi forces launched airstrikes on IS positions in the Sadiyah district of Diyala, killing 2 ISIS fighters. December 22 - 2 PMF fighters were killed and 4 more