The World - News from March 8, 1987
Iran announced that its forces wiped out two Iraqi brigades in the snow-covered Kurdistan mountains in northern Iraq on the fourth day of an offensive there. Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency said about half the soldiers from the two brigades fighting in the mountains were killed or wounded. An Iraqi brigade usually numbers 4,000 men. The Iranians claimed they have seized about 20 square miles of territory since the northern offensive began late Tuesday around Haj Omran. Iraqi military communiques claimed that all Iranian assaults have been beaten back.
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