Over Dozen Terrorists Killed in Eastern Iraq

Date: 31 December 2017 - 20:54

News ID: ۴۸۳۲۴

BAGHDAD (Dispatches) – Thirteen Daesh terrorists were killed Sunday in clashes with popular Hashd al-Shaabi fighters in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, a Hashd Shaabi statement said.
The clashes took place when Daesh terrorists attacked the Hashd al-Shaabi posts at villages in north of the town of Maqdadiyah, some 100km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the statement said.
Later on, the fighters carried out search operation looking for the attackers who withdrew to rural areas outside the villages, it said.
Despite repeated military operations in Diyala province, remnants of Daesh terrorists were still hiding in rugged areas near the border with Iran, as well as the sprawling areas extending from western part of Diyala to Himreen mountainous area.
Dozens of Daesh terrorists fled their former bases in Salahudin province and Hawijah area in west of Kirkuk after the Iraqi forces cleared these areas from the extremists during anti- Daesh offensives in the past few months.
On December 9, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi officially declared full liberation of Iraq from Daesh terrorists after Iraqi forces recaptured all the areas once seized by the extremist group.
However, small groups of Daesh terrorists resorted to deserts and rugged areas looking for safe havens but the security forces are hunting them down from time to time.