Iraqi Izadi Kurds severe key ISIL supply line in Sinjar
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File photo shows Iraqi security forces (Associated Press)
Iraqi Izadi Kurds along with tribal fighters have severed a major terrorist supply line by liberating a border area with Syria in the northern region of Sinjar.
According to Press TV quoting an Iraqi military statement broadcast on Friday, the group of fighters retook the Um al-Diban and Um Jurais districts located close to the Syrian border following clashes with the ISIL terrorists.
Meanwhile, Major General Ismail Mahalawi, from Anbar Operations Command, announced that three ISIL hideouts had been destroyed close to the central Iraqi city of Ramadi.
“The air force, in coordination with the Tenth Division, managed to destroy three shelters for ISIL east of Albu Obeid area east of Ramadi, killing all the ISIL members who were in them,” he said.
He added that a total of 67 explosive devices were also located by military engineers and destroyed in areas to the east and north of the city.
Earlier, Iraqi government troops liberated the town of Kubaysah in the conflict-ridden Western Province of Anbar.
The fresh gains follow the commencement of a military operation to recapture the country’s second-largest city of Mosul in the north from ISIL.
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