Iraqi Air Force and Army units were destroyed to the north of Baghdad 7 militants of the terrorist group “Islamic State”, including two leaders of extremists. About this, as the news portal Shafaq News reports, said the representative of the commander of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Yahya Rasul.
Rasul noted that four terrorists were eliminated as a result of the strikes of Iraqi fighters F-16 in the Machul Mountains area in Salah Ed-Dean Province. Employees of the Federal Agency of Intelligence and Investigations under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic were helped to track down.
In addition, according to him, these air raids have become a continuation of the operation, which was carried out in the area located near the city of Al-Hdra (Hatra, Nainava Province). There were still three more extremists, including two leaders of the IG with suicide bones.
Recall, ISIL militants occupied about a third of Iraqi territory in the summer of 2014. In June, they seized the second largest city of Mosul country and declared it with the capital of the so-called caliphate. In 2015, with the support of the International Coalition, Iraqi government forces began a large-scale campaign to exempted areas captured by extremists. In December 2017, Iraq Haydar Al-Abadi then held the post of Prime Minister Iraq, he announced the final defeat of the IG. However, the powerful departments are still carried out in different parts of the country to destroy the terrorist underground, whose members are attacked by law enforcement officers, army and peaceful citizens.