directorate
ISがイラクのキルクークを襲撃しました。ISの標的はキルクーク市内および政治的な施設でした。攻撃は自爆テロによって行われました。警察の発表によると事態は沈静化されたようです。
記事の中で気になった単語は"directorate"です。『Wisdom英和辞典第三版』（三省堂）で調べると「〚単複両扱い〛 理事会, 役員会, 重役会(board of directors), (省庁の) 局, 部」などという意味がありました。Oxford Dictionaries.comには"A section of a government department in charge of a particular activity"と定義されております。イラク軍はISに制圧されていたモスルを奪還しましたが，ISはモスルに近いキルクークを襲撃して，再度モスルを攻める意図があるのかもしれません。(Ume)
IS militants attack Iraqi city of Kirkuk as Mosul offensive continues
The Beirut-based newspaper al-Sumaria reported that during the dawn attack, three suicide bombers had blown themselves up.
A district police chief, Brig Gen Sarhad Qadir, told the BBC that militants and a number of suicide bombers had attacked Kirkuk's emergency police building, an old police directorate building, another police station, a political party headquarters and a power station in nearby Dibis that was still under construction.
"All of the militants who attacked the police emergency building and the old building of the Kirkuk police directorate have been killed, but a number of other militants are still in Dumez district," he said.
Kirkuk police sources said three Iranian workers at the power station were killed, along with eight Iraqis.
