Iraqi forces deal big blows to ISIL
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Iraqi soldiers, sitting on their armored vehicles, drive towards al-Sijariyah district, east of Anbar’s provincial capital city of Ramadi, on February 2, 2016.
More than a hundred members of ISIL Takfiri terrorist group have been killed when Iraqi government forces carried out a number of clean-up operations against the terrorists across the crisis-stricken Arab country.
On Tuesday, the 76th Infantry Regiment of the Anbar Operations Command thwarted an ISIL offensive against Zankurah district, located west of Anbar’s provincial capital city of Ramadi, killing 14 of the extremists and destroying two vehicles rigged with explosives in the process, Arabic-language al-Sumaria satellite television network reported.
Iraqi troopers also killed two ISIL terrorists, injured three others and destroyed a terrorists’ hideout in the city of Husaybah, situated seven kilometers (4.5 miles) east of Ramadi.
Additionally, Iraqi bomb disposal units cleared seven booby-trapped houses, and defused 25 explosives-laden tankers plus 15 improvised explosive devices in the Sura area of Anbar Province.
They also cleansed 16 roads in the Albu Risha area, located in the northwestern outskirts of Ramadi, of explosive devices.
Tens of ISIL Takfiris were also killed and 30 others wounded as Iraqi government forces mounted an operation in Albu Shajal district east of Ramadi.
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