Daesh Terrorists Killed in Airstrike in Eastern Iraq

Date: 17 November 2018 - 21:37

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BAGHDAD (Dispatches) – A number of Daesh terrorists were killed Saturday in an airstrike in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, a provincial security source said.
Acting on intelligence reports, the Iraqi warplanes bombarded a Daesh hideout in Himreen mountainous area in northeast of the provincial capital Baquba, about 65 km northeast of Baghdad, Major Alaa al-Saadi, from Diyala Operations Command said.
The bombardment destroyed the hideout and killed four terrorists, al-Saadi said.
The Iraqi forces are carrying continuing reconnaissance and surveillance in difference areas to track the terrorists and destroy their locations, al-Saadi added.
Despite repeated military operations in the Diyala province, remnants of Daesh terrorists are still hiding in some rugged areas near the border with Iran, and in the sprawling areas extending from the western part of the province to the Himreen mountain range.
Separately, a security source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the independent Arabic-language National Iraqi News Agency that members of the Federal Police force, backed by Iraqi Air Force jets, carried out numerous operations in the Badush and Hatra districts of the northern province of Nineveh, killing over 20 Daesh terrorists in the process.
The source warned that sleeper cells of the terrorist group were still active in some parts of Nineveh.
Former Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi declared the end of military operations against Daesh in the Arab country on December 9, 2017.
On July 10 that year, he formally declared victory over Daesh in Mosul, which served as the terrorists’ main urban stronghold in Iraq.
In the run-up to Mosul's liberation, Iraqi army soldiers and volunteer Hashd al-Sha’abi fighters had made sweeping gains against Daesh.
Iraqi forces took control of eastern Mosul in January 2017 after 100 days of fighting, and launched the battle in the west on February 19 last year.
Daesh began a terror campaign in Iraq in 2014, overrunning vast swathes in lightning attacks.