More than a dozen members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group have been killed and several others captured as Iraqi air forces and government troops launched separate counter-terrorism operations across the crisis-hit Arab country to flush out the last remnants of the extremist outfit.<\/p>\n
The second-in-command of Diyala Operations, Lieutenant General Hassan Mohammed, told Arabic-language al-Sumaria television network that nine Daesh Takfiris were killed when Iraqi military aircraft targeted a militant hideout in Hamrin basin, situated 90 kilometers north of Baquba, Presstv Reported.<\/p>\n
Separately, Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman, Brigadier General Saad Maan, announced in a statement that the 7th Police Emergency Regiment of the Nineveh Police Command arrested 8 Daesh terrorists, whom were wanted under Article 4\/1 of the Anti-Terrorism Law, in the eastern part of the strategic northern city of Mosul on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the holy city of Samarra, Iraqi troops killed four Daesh terrorists, including three bombers, during an operation to beef up security.<\/p>\n
\u201cIraqi army fighter jets struck a vehicle belonging to Daesh terrorist as soon as it arrived in Sa\u2019ad al-Khuzeimi region west of Rutba. The airstrike killed a militant and injured three of his comrades. The slain terrorist has been identified as Khalaf al-Alwani,\u201d Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC) spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Rasool said.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, members of the Iraqi Federal Police killed two Daesh militant commanders, one of them a Chechen national, during a clean-up operation in the oil-rich northern province of Kirkuk.<\/p>\n
The media bureau of Iraq’s Joint Operations Command (JOC) said in a statement that the two were killed in Dabba village, adding that security forces also set two militant hideouts on fire and captured ten Takfiri militants.<\/p>\n
On June 30, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who is also the commander-in-chief of Iraqi forces, pledged to hunt down Daesh militants across Iraq after recent attacks and abductions carried out by the terrorist group.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will chase the remaining cells of terrorism in their hideouts and we will kill them, we will chase them everywhere, in the mountains and the desert,\u201d Abadi said.<\/p>\n
Abadi declared the end of military operations against Daesh in the Arab country on December 9, 2017.<\/p>\n
On July 10 that year, the Iraqi prime minister had formally declared victory over Daesh extremists in Mosul, which served as the terrorists\u2019 main urban stronghold in the conflict-ridden Arab country.<\/p>\n
In the run-up to Mosul’s liberation, Iraqi army soldiers and volunteer Hashd al-Sha\u2019abi fighters had made sweeping gains against Daesh.<\/p>\n
The Iraqi forces took control of eastern Mosul in January 2017 after 100 days of fighting, and launched the battle in the west on February 19 last year.<\/p>\n
Daesh began a terror campaign in Iraq in 2014, overrunning vast swathes in lightning attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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