Iraqi forces capture 125 artillery rockets
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Anbar Operations Command announced on Saturday discovering 125 Jahannam (Hell) rockets belonging to the Islamic State, in addition to large quantities of weapons and IEDs, through search operations in Hayy al-Bakr in Heet, west of Ramadi.
Commander of Anbar Operations, Major General Ismail al-Mahalawi, said in a press statement, “Security forces, while searching the liberated area of Hayy al-Bakr in Heet (70 km west of Ramadi), found a large cache of weapons and rockets inside one of the houses.”
“The cache contained 125 Jahannam rockets that were used by the Islamic State to attack security forces,” Mahalawi explained.
Mahalawi added that the cache also contained ten boxes of explosive materials, as well as six Katyusha rockets.
Furthermore, Commander of Operations revealed that security forces from the army and police continue search operations in the areas that were liberated from the ISIS, especially in Heet that was the extremist group’s key stronghold for more than three years.
Security forces managed to liberate the majority of cities of Anbar from the ISIS control in early 2016, and now they are preparing the freed areas for the return of thousands of displaced families.