BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 20 (NNN-NINA) – A total of 10 Daesh militants were killed on Friday, in an air strike by the U.S.-led coalition aircraft, in Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh, the Iraqi military said.
Acting on intelligence reports, the coalition aircraft attacked a Daesh hideout, at a desert in al-Baaj area, near the border with Syria, the media office of the Joint Operations Command said, in a brief statement.
The air strike resulted in the killing of 10 extremist Daesh militants and the destruction of their hideout and their vehicle, the statement added.
The security situation in Iraq was dramatically improved after Iraqi security forces fully defeated the extremist Daesh militants across the country late in 2017.
Daesh remnants, however, have since melted in urban areas or resorted to deserts and rugged areas, as safe havens, carrying out frequent guerrilla attacks against security forces and civilians.– NNN-NINA
