BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 24 (NNN-NINA) – A total of three Daesh militants were killed and four others captured, by Iraqi security forces, in an operation in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala, a security official said.
Diyala’s provincial police and intelligence service have been conducting a week-long operation, to hunt down recruitment cells for Daesh suicide bombers in the province, through raiding their hideouts, Sadiq al-Husseini, head of the security committee, said.
The operation, which was based on accurate intelligence, resulted in the killing of three would-be suicide bombers and the capturing of four others, who used to provide logistic support for the suicide bombers, al-Husseini said.
Despite repeated military operations in the Diyala province, remnants of 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, in the north of the provincial capital, Baquba.– NNN-NINA
