Baghdad – WAA
The Joint Operations Command announced the killing of a number of terrorists in a qualitative operation east of Salah al-Din.
The Joint Operations Command stated in a statement by the Security Media Cell received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that “after the successful security operation carried out in the (Qara Hanjir) district east of Kirkuk by the security forces in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, which resulted in the killing of one of the ISIS terrorist gangs and the arrest of another terrorist, and through investigation with him, he confessed to the existence of an important hideout for ISIS elements in the Balkana Mountains within the operations sector east of Salah al-Din.”
She added, “With the high coordination between the National Security Service and the Asayish of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and under the supervision, follow-up and planning of the air targeting cell affiliated with the Joint Operations Command, and the use of technical resources, the hideout was monitored with terrorist elements inside it, where the Air Falcons were able, using F-16 aircraft affiliated with the Air Force Command, according to this confirmed information, to target this hideout and completely destroy it over the heads of the terrorist elements.”
She continued: “Our various security forces will continue their heroic work in all areas of the country with the spirit of one team to pursue and track down the defeated terrorist elements who will have no place on Iraqi soil.”
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