| Perhaps you can figure out how many ISIS bad guys were killed in western Anbar from these reports, dear Reader, but it is beyond me to say more precisely than many. |
ِIraqi command says killed IS masterminds behind Baghdad, Basra bombings in AnbarQaim (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi air forces killed 20 Islamic State members in western Anbar on Sunday, including the masterminds behind recent deadly bombings in Baghdad and Basra, military media reported Tuesday.
The Joint Operations Command said the strike targeted an important meeting by IS leaders in the city of al-Qaim, a major Islamic State stronghold near the borders with Syria held by the group since 2014. Those killed included an “emir” of the Islamic State’s so-called “Baghdad State”, his chief boob-trapping experts and a suicide bombers’ commander.
A booby-trapped vehicle parked near the location of the meeting, as well as a stack of explosive devices prepared for transfer to a safer destination, also exploded in the strike, according to military media.
Seven IS members killed as military foil attempt to approach defense line, western Anbar
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Military forces killed seven Islamic State members who attempted approaching the troops defense line near the town of Annah, western Anbar, a military source said on Tuesday.
“Military troops from the 28th brigade, backed by al-Hashdal-Ashaeri [tribal mobilization forces] thwarted an attempt by IS to approach the troops defense line, which is 12 KM away from Annah,” the source from the army’s seventh division in Anbar told AlSumaria News.
“Clashes occurred between the troops and the militants, leaving seven terrorists killed, while the others were able to escape to inside the town,” the source, who preferred anonymity, added.
34 Islamic State militants killed in offensive in Anbar desert
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) The War Media Cell has declared outcome of operations launched in the desert of Anbar that started on Monday.
“34 terrorists, most of whom were wearing suicide belts, were killed, while three booby-trapped vehicles were destroyed in addition to other vehicles with guns installed on them,” the troops media service said in a statement on Tuesday. “70 bombs were defused. Stashes of weapons and explosives as well as boats used by the militants to cross the [Euphrates] river, were destroyed.”
The operations were carried out by units of the Jazeera Operations Command and al-Hashd al-Ashaeri (tribal mobilization forces) backed by the airforce and the international coalition, the statement added. The operation was launched at depth of 40 KM in the desert from three axis.
The three axes, according to WMC, were “north of Qadisiya lake toward Rawa city, south of Euphrates River toward Rihana and Annah cities and another axis toward Makhazin Haditha and Valley of Houran."
Heavy casualties for ISIS as the Iraqi Army attacks jihadist positions in the desert of Anbar
[ALMASDARNEWS] 43 ISIS fighers have been neutralized by the Iraqi Armed Forces through coordinated government attacks in western Anbar, a source told al-Masdar News on Tuesday. Many of the dear departed ISIS members were said to be jacket wallahs.
The military campaign was led armored elements of the Iraqi Army’s 7th Division and heavily assisted by the Iraqi Air Force which was given coordinates of numerious ISIS targets throughout the 48-hour operation.
Among the ISIS deathtoll were around a dozen jihadist commanders, including the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
deputy governor of Baghdad. These ISIS members were killed during a series of air raids on al-Qaim, an ISIS stronghold on the Euphrates River not far from the Syrian border.