BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 9 (NNN-NINA) – Three Daesh militants were killed and several hideouts and weapons were destroyed Monday, during a major offensive, launched to hunt down remnants of the Daesh militants in desert areas in central and northern Iraq.
A statement by the Joint Operations Command (JOC) said, Iraqi forces continued their advance for the second successive day, while helicopter gunships bombed a vehicle in Nineveh province, killing three Daesh militants aboard.
The paramilitary Hashd Shaabi units seized a vehicle used by the militants in one of the valleys of a rugged area in Nineveh province, the statement said.
In the central province of Salahudin, the troops found four car bomb-making sites and some 30 Katyusha rockets, as well as, six artillery projectiles and a number of mortar rounds and different rockets, the statement added.
In the western province of Anbar, the troops continued their advance and managed to destroy a Daesh hideout and detonated three roadside bombs, at a village in the province, while the army’s helicopters bombed a vehicle used by the militants, according to the statement.
On Sunday, Iraqi soldiers and paramilitary Hashd Shaabi units, backed by Iraqi and international aircraft, pushed in multiple routes in the three provinces of Nineveh, Salahudin and Anbar, to chase the remnants of the militants and to destroy their hideouts, according to a statement by Abdul Amir Rasheed Yarallah, deputy commander of JOC.– NNN-NINA
