BAGHDAD, Dec 26 (NNN-NINA) – Two Daesh militants were killed and one soldier wounded yesterday, in a clash in Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh, a provincial police source said.
Earlier in the day, a fierce clash erupted, during an operation to hunt down Daesh militants, in Qara-Chokh Mountain near the town of Makhmour, some 60 km south-east of Nineveh’s provincial capital, Mosul, leaving two Daesh militants killed and one soldier wounded, Major Saad al-Baiyati from Nineveh police, said.
Al-Baiyati said that the security operation would continue, to clear the dangerous Daesh redoubt in the mountainous area, south of Mosul.
Over the past months, Iraqi security forces have conducted operations against the extremist Daesh militants, to crack down on their intensified activities.– NNN-NINA
