BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 13 (NNN-NINA) – Four Daesh militants were killed Friday, in clashes with security forces at a rural area in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala, the provincial police chief said.
The clashes erupted during the day, when a joint force from the Iraqi army, police and armed villagers, raided a Daesh hideout, in orchards near the village of Mkheisa, some 95 km north-east of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, Faisal al-Abadi, Diyala’s provincial police chief, said.
Al-Abadi said, one of the four killed militants was a sniper, and that the raid was designed to clear the orchards from the Daesh sleeper cells in the area, after they carried out attack against civilians recently.
Despite repeated military operations in the Diyala province, remnants of the Daesh militants 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 north of Baquba.– NNN-NINA
