FOUR ISIS MILITANTS KILLED ON IRAQI ANTI-ISIS OPERATION'S FOURTH PHASE
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iraqi security
forces announced the deaths of four Islamic State (ISIS) fighters and the
arrests of four others during the first day of the “Will of Victory”
operation’s fourth phase in Iraq’s western deserts.
The Iraqi Security Media Cell, a
communications organization in the Iraqi Ministry of Defense, published the
results of yesterday’s actions on Facebook today. Yesterday was the first day
of the ongoing anti-ISIS operation’s fourth phase, and is being carried out in
the Anbar province.
Iraqi army units destroyed 15 ISIS tunnels
on all the four frontlines on the first day of the operation, and also defused
eight explosive devices, according to the Security Media Cell.
US-led coalition warplanes conducted one
airstrike against an ISIS tunnel, which resulted in the deaths of two
militants, also according to the Security Media Cell.
The Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), also
known as Hashd al-Shaabi, killed two ISIS militants and arrested four others in
the Wadi al-Madsis valley frontline in the Anbar desert. One militant in the
Iran-backed militia was also wounded during the clashes with the ISIS
militants, according to the cell’s post.
Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi, who
is commander in chief of Iraq’s armed forces, arrived at the military’s Anbar Operation Command
headquarters on Sunday to supervise and discuss the latest updates about the
fourth phase of Will of Victory operation, his office said on Twitter.
The Iraqi Ministry of Defense announced the
start of the fourth phase of its “Will of Victory” operation to hunt down the
ISIS sleeper cells in the deserts of
Anbar province on Saturday.
“The aim of the operation is to clean the
desert of Anbar from Islamic State
(ISIS) sleeper cells,” the Iraqi Security Media Cell said in a statement on
Saturday.
The operation is a collaboration between
various domestic forces, including the
Anbar Operations Command, al-Jazira Operation Command, Hashd al-Ashairi paramilitias, federal police,
the army, the PMF, Border Guard Command
and the air force, as well as the US-led international coalition, according to the statement.
Iraqi security forces aim to clear a nearly
43,000 kilometer area in the operation.
The Iraqi government announced the
territorial defeat of ISIS in December 2017. However, remnants of the group
have returned to earlier insurgency
tactics of ambushing security forces, kidnapping, executing suspected informants, and extorting money
from vulnerable, rural populations.
ISIS is particularly active near the Syrian
border, in the Nineveh province, and in
disputed territories between Iraq and the Kurdistan Region. A report from the
US Department of Defense released in August said there are 14,000 to 18,000
ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria.
Source: Rudaw – 26 August 2019
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