BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb 12 (NNN-NINA) – Iraqi Ministry of Interior, announced, it dismantled the biggest Daesh cell in Iraq’s western province of Anbar and captured 186 militants, who committed terrorist attacks in the country.
“A joint force captured the biggest Daesh cell in Anbar, responsible for suicide attacks, planting roadside bombs and assassinating military personnel, on the international highway west of the country,” Saad Maan, spokesman of Baghdad Operations Command, said, in a joint press conference with head of Anbar’s provincial council, Ahmed al-Alwani.
The detained extremist militants signed their confessions and some of them were sentenced to death, pending on death row.
Maan said that the extremist militants were captured, following the liberation of Anbar in late 2017, and they are also responsible for killing civilians from the al-Bun Nimr tribe for refusing to join the extremist group.
Al-Alwani called on the Ministry of Interior and Iraqi Prime Minister, Adel Abdul Mahdi, to support the directorate of intelligence and counter terrorism in Anbar.– NNN-NINA
