Iraqi forces kill 50 Daesh terrorists in Salahuddin province

At least 50 members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group have been killed while 40 other arrested in a series of counter-terrorism operations against the militants across Iraq.

According to Press TV, Lieutenant General Abdul Ghani al-Assadi, the commander of Iraq’s counter-terrorism forces, said on Monday that the terrorists were killed during a high-scale military operation in the town of al-Shirqat in northern Salahuddin province

The commander added that the Iraqi forces also repelled a massive attack by Daesh terrorists near the same troubled region.

Meanwhile, Iraq’s National Intelligence Service announced that security forces had detained at least 40 terrorists during a crackdown on militants’ hideouts in north and south of the capital, Baghdad.

Also on Monday, two separate bomb attacks claimed the lives of at least four people and injured a dozen others near Baghdad.

In the first attack, at least two people lost their lives and nine others sustained injures after an explosive device went off in a busty market in Latifiyah area, which is located 50 kilometers south of Baghdad.

Separately, Iraqi Interior Ministry spokesman, Brigadier General Saad Maan, announced that two members of security forces were killed and three others sustained injuries after a bomber detonated his explosive vest at a security checkpoint in the town of Saab al-Bour, located approximately 29 kilometers northwest of the capital.

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