BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 4 (NNN-NINA) – A total of 18 Daesh militants were killed on Wednesday, in operations by Iraqi security forces and air strikes by international U.S.-led coalition aircraft, the Iraqi military said.
In Iraq’s western province of Anbar, four militants were killed and their vehicle destroyed, when paramilitary tribal fighters raided their hideout in Akashat, in the desert near the border with Syria, the media office of the Joint Operations Command (JOC) said, in a statement.
Also in the province, international aircraft carried out an air strike on Daesh hideout, south of Sneislah Lake, east of the borderline with Syria, killing four of the militants.
Daesh militants are still active in the vast Anbar desert, which stretches to the border with neighbouring countries of Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, as many civilians have been kidnapped or killed by the extremist group recently.
In Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh, the Iraqi army carried out an anti-Daesh operation in Sekheirat, west of the provincial capital, Mosul, killing two militants and destroying their vehicle, in addition to destroying a tunnel and killing five more militants inside, the JOC said.
Separately, the U.S.-led coalition aircraft, bombed a Daesh vehicle and killed three militants, west of al-Munayif Mountain, near the border with Syria, a JOC statement said.– NNN-NINA
