{"id":117838,"date":"2021-04-08T16:44:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T08:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117838"},"modified":"2021-04-08T16:51:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T08:51:55","slug":"60-daesh-militants-killed-in-airstrikes-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117838","title":{"rendered":"60 Daesh Militants Killed In Airstrikes In Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BAGHDAD, Apr 8 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; A total of 60 militants of the Daesh  group were killed, in airstrikes in a mountainous area, in Salahudin province, north of Iraq&#8217;s capital, Baghdad, the Iraqi military said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraqi aircraft, in coordination with Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS), conducted airstrikes on Daesh hideouts, on Mar 25, in Himreen mountain range, leaving 60 militants killed, Yahia Rasoul, spokesman of the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi forces, said, in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Mar 24, Rasoul said, Iraqi security forces, backed by U.S.-led coalition and Iraqi aircraft, launched an offensive which continued for 14 days in the Makhmour mountain range, in Iraq&#8217;s northern province of Nineveh, destroying 120 Daesh positions and killing 27 militants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Rasoul, March&#8217;s offensive forced the militants to flee to alternative hideouts, in the Himreen Mountain, in Salahudin province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mountains and vast rugged areas north of Baghdad, witnessed intense activities of the militants during the past months, despite repeated military operations to hunt them down.&#8211; NNN-NINA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD, Apr 8 (NNN-NINA) &#8211; A total of 60 militants of the Daesh group were killed, in airstrikes in a mountainous area, in Salahudin province, north of Iraq&#8217;s capital, Baghdad, the Iraqi military said. Iraqi aircraft, in coordination with Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS), conducted airstrikes on Daesh hideouts, on Mar 25, in Himreen mountain range, leaving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":117841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286,217,301],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117838"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}