BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 30 (NNN-NINA) – A total of five Daesh militants, including a group leader, were killed, in an operation by the paramilitary Hashd Shaabi units, in Iraq’s central province of Salahudin on Friday.
The operation was carried out “at dawn against a Daesh position on the edges of al-Mu’tasim area, some 60 km south of the provincial capital, Tikrit,” said a statement, by Saraya al-Salam, a militia affiliated with Shiite cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr and part of Hashd Shaabi.
The killed Daesh leader, identified as Mohammed Mukhtar, is responsible for coordinating Daesh activities in Salahudin and northern Baghdad, the statement added.
According to the statement, the other four killed militants were Mukhtar’s associates, and three members of Saraya al-Salam were wounded in the operation.
Mukhtar was behind many terrorist attacks against civilians, government officials and security forces in the area, the statement said.
Meanwhile, international coalition aircraft conducted an air strike on a Daesh position in the desert of Iraq’s western province of Anbar, killing all militants inside, according to a statement by the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command.– NNN-NINA
