Triple car bombing kills at least 28 Peshmerga veterans

Triple car bombing by IS militants have killed 28 Peshmerga veterans and injured another 90 – the veterans were on their way to re-enlist in the fight against Islamic State militants news.sky.com.

As per reports, the attack took place in a government compound in Qara Qubah – the dead included both civilians and soldiers. The actual casualty numbers is still not known because many others are still trapped in the debris.
Islamic State fighters have apparently claimed responsibility for the attacks – in Twitter they have indicated that three of the bombers were non-Iraqis who had been sent from Germany, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
The attack was timed to coincide with the beginning of training that the British Army planned to impart to Kurdish forces on how to use heavy machine guns against the IS.

The attack on the Peshmerga fighters came after a bloody day of violence in Baghdad in which over 45 people were killed in a series of bombings that rocked Iraq's capital city. Three bombs were detonated in busy shopping areas - the first of these killed eight people outside an ice cream shop. And then just meters down the road in the neighborhood of Shaoula, another car blast killed 18 people.
Moreover, in countryside north of the city, a bomber wearing a suicide vest left 11 others fatally wounded.

Britain has sent specialist team to Iraq to tackle the IS fighters

The Ministry of Defense has confirmed that a small specialist team of UK soldiers have been sent to Iraq and are engaged near the front line of the fight between the Islamic State (IS) and Kurdish fighters news.sky.com.

The team is reportedly based near the Kurdish capital of Irbil in the north, and they are believed to be training Peshmerga forces in the use of heavy machine guns that had been supplied to tem by Britain in September.
The specialist soldiers have come from the 2nd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, which is based in Cyprus.
It has been explained by a MoD spokeswoman that the intention of the Government is to extend training to the Peshmerga as part of the continued effort to assist in the fight against ISIL (IS). It has also been clarified that the Defense Secretary has approved the deployment of a small specialist team of non-combat Army trainers which is now in the Irbil area providing instruction on operating, employing and maintaining the heavy machine guns that were gifted by the UK last month.

RAF Tornado fighter jets have already been involved in the US-led bombing raids on IS fighters for the past two weeks. Incidentally, British troops had invaded Iraq in March 2003 to overthrow Saddam Hussein.