"The ISIL terrorists fled the area (Western Kirkuk) for an unknown place and have left behind their weapons," Shafaq News website quoted informed sources and eyewitnesses as saying on Sunday.
A commander of the Awakening Forces said his forces have informed him that around 100 ISIL militants have fled Al-Zouyeh village in Beiji region of Salahuddin province and al-Zab area in Southwestern Kirkuk, near Beiji refinery, and left their military tools and weapons behind.
Kirkuk is a city in the north of Iraq, 236 kilometers North of Baghdad, and 83 kilometers (52 miles) South of Erbil.
Kirkuk lies in a wide zone with an enormously diverse population, which has moreover experienced dramatic demographic changes in the course of the twentieth century.
The Islamic State of the Iraq and the Levant is a terrorist group which proclaimed caliphate status.
The group has been officially designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the United Nations Security Council and most world countries.
