BAGHDAD, Feb 18 (NNN-NINA) – A total of four Daesh militants were killed yesterday, in an airstrike in eastern Iraq, and a raid in the west, the Iraqi military said.
Acted on intelligence reports, Iraqi fighter jets bombarded a Daesh hideout, in the Himreen mountain range, killing three Daesh militants, said the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command, in a statement.
The statement gave no further details about the bombed Daesh hideout but said, more information would be released later.
A security source anonymously said that, one of the three killed is believed to be a local leader of the extremist group.
Despite repeated military operations against the Daesh remnants, the extremist militants are still hiding in the Himreen mountain range, which extends three provinces, namely Diyala, Salahudin, and Kirkuk.
In Iraq’s western province of Anbar, Iraqi soldiers killed a Daesh militant, after surrounding him in a hideout in the city of Heet, some 160 km west of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, the spokesman of the commander-in-chief of Iraqi forces, Yahia Rasoul, said in a statement.– NNN-NINA
