BAGHDAD, Jun 20 (NNN-NINA) – Four militants of the Daesh group, including the group’s leader in Anbar Province, were killed yesterday, in an airstrike in western Iraq, the Iraqi military said.
Acting on intelligence reports, the Iraqi armed forces attacked a truck carrying the Daesh leader, nicknamed Abu Mansour, in Anbar, and three other militants, in a desert area near the town of Rutba, some 390 km west of the capital, Baghdad, the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command said, in a statement.
An army force later searched the targeted site and found four bodies, a destroyed truck, two explosive belts, two rifles and a pistol, according to the statement.
Abu Mansour is one of those responsible for targeting citizens on the Baghdad-Amman international road, in the al-Rutba area, and held several positions in the Daesh group in Iraq and Syria, according to a separate statement, released by the Intelligence Service of the Ministry of Interior.
Iraqi security forces have been fighting the militants over the past few months, to crack down on their intensified activities.– NNN-NINA
