BAGHDAD, May 18 (NNN-NINA) – Two Daesh militants and a paramilitary Hashd Shaabi member were killed on Sunday, in attacks in the province of Salahudin of Iraq, a provincial police source said.
A force from the provincial police, clashed with the militant group, in a desert area, in the western part of the province, leaving two Daesh militants killed and five policemen wounded, Mohammed al-Bazi said.
The clash occurred as the force was participating in a major offensive launched in the morning, to hunt down Daesh remnants in the desert and rugged areas in the provinces of Anbar, Salahudin and Nineveh, as well as, the border areas with Syria, according to a statement by the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command.
In a separate incident, one paramilitary Hashd Shaabi member was killed and three others wounded, when a roadside bomb, planted by the militants detonated near the town of Tuz-Khrmato, some 90 km east of Salahudin’s provincial capital Tikrit, Ali al-Husseini, a local paramilitary leader said.
The blast took place when the Hashd Shaabi members were on their way to help secure and put out fires in wheat farms, that were ignited by extremists earlier in the day.
The attacks came, as the militants intensified their attacks on security forces, including Hashd Shaabi forces, and civilians, in the formerly Daesh-controlled Sunni provinces, since the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, resulting in the killing and wounding of dozens.– NNN-NINA
