BAGHDAD (Dispatches) – Iraqi Army pounded the hideouts belonging to the Daesh terrorist group in Salahuddin province on Monday.
The Iraqi Army attacked the terrorists’ hideouts with F-16 fighter jets based on exact intelligence information.
In recent months, the remnants of the Daesh terrorist group have tried to continue terrorist activities in remote areas and deserts of Iraq.
Meanwhile, Iraq’s interior ministry said Sunday a Daesh group member had been arrested in a Baghdad hotel, accusing him of carrying out intelligence-gathering missions for the terrorist organization.
The man, whose name was not given, was detained by “intelligence units charged with the security of tourist infrastructure,” a ministry press release said.
It said he was accused of supplying the terrorists with “personal information about members of the security forces in Nineveh province” in northern Iraq.
The man had confessed to being a Daesh member, it added.
Daesh, which attacked Iraq on June 7, 2014, and managed to capture about 45% of the country’s territory for a short period of time, was defeated in November 2017. However, since then, the remnants of the terrorist group are present and operating in Iraq and Syria and carry out terrorist attacks from time to time.
Iraqi security forces keep searching, clearing, and chasing Daesh across the country to make sure that the terrorist group and its fugitive elements do not re-emerge.
A United Nations report published in July said Daesh has “between 5,000 and 7,000 members across Iraq and the Syrian Arab Republic, most of whom are militants.”