Iraqi military aircraft kill more Daesh members in Salahuddin

Iraqi military aircraft have launched a series of aerial attacks against the remnants of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in the country’s north-central province of Salahuddin, killing a number of extremists in the process.

Provincial police source Mohammed al-Bazi said Iraqi Air Force fighter jets struck the rugged Mutibjah area, killing seven Daesh militants and destroying two of their hideouts.

Bazi added that two underground tunnels and two motorcycles belonging to the Takfiris were also destroyed in the aerial attacks.

Meanwhile, the head of the Anbar provincial council's security committee, Naim al-Kaoud, told the Arabic service of Russia’s Sputnik news agency that an army commander had lost his life in a powerful bomb explosion.

Kaoud said Lieutenant Colonel Akram Abbas Fahdawi was traveling in a car along the international highway linking the troubled western province of Anbar to Jordan, when Daesh terrorists detonated a roadside bomb.

On August 13, the Iraqi Ministry of Defense announced the dismantling of a terrorist cell that was apparently preparing to carry out a terrorist attack in the center of Anbar province.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who is also the commander-in-chief of Iraqi forces, pledged on June 30 to hunt down the remnants of Daesh militants across Iraq after a series of attacks and abductions carried out by the terrorist group.

“We 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,” Abadi said.

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