After the successful security operation carried out in the Qara Hanjir district east of Kirkuk on Sunday, 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 during the investigation with him, he confessed to the existence of an important hideout for ISIS elements in the Balkana Mountains within the eastern Salah al-Din Operations Sector, and 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 and inside it were terrorist elements, 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 on top of the terrorist elements.
We will provide you with the details later.
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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Joint Operations Command
Security Media Cell
July 14, 2024
