BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug 13 (NNN-NINA) – A total of ten Daesh militants were killed on Monday, in an air strike by U.S.-led coalition aircraft, and clashes with Iraqi security forces in western Iraq, the Iraqi military said.
The Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS), carried out a raid in coordination with the international coalition aircraft, which conducted an air strike on Daesh hideouts in the desert of Iraq’s western province of Anbar, the CTS said in a statement.
Afterwards, the airborne CTS troops conducted airdrop operation on the bombed site and clashed with the extremist militants, leaving eight of them killed, the statement said.
Later on, the troops searched the hideouts and found two would-be suicide bombers wearing explosive belts, killing one of them, while the other blew himself up without causing casualties among the troops, the statement added.– NNN-NINA
