4 Kidz die in mine attack near Hasakah
Hasakah (Syria News) A landmine explosion killed, on Wednesday, four children, in the countryside of Hasaka, local sources told Qasioun News.
The sources informed that four children were killed in the explosion of a land mine in Tal Hamis City in the countryside of Hasaka.
The government of Hasakah explained that a landmine, from the remains of the Islamic State, exploded while a number of children were playing in Tal Hamis area, northeast of Hasaka, killing four children.
Early this week, a child was killed and seven people were injured in a booby-trapped motorcycle explosion in al-Seyahi District, in the city of Qamishli, north of Hasakah.
30 families rescued in Salahuddin
Shirqat (IraqiNews.com) Paramilitary troops fighting Islamic State militants said Thursday they had rescued dozens of families in Salahuddin province as operations continue to militants’ havens.
Jabbar al-Maamouri, a senior leader at the Popular Mobilization Forces, told Alsumaria News that the troops managed to set free 30 families which the militants had tried to use as human shields as a military campaign seeks to retake the eastern side of the Islamic State-held town of Shirqat.
Maamouri said four defense lines set by IS had collapsed without resistance, while several villages were recaptured. He added that ten militants turned themselves in with security forces.
Iraqi government and paramilitary forces recaptured several villages on Thursday as the government launched a wide-scale, final operation to retake all of Islamic State’s remaining havens in Kirkuk and Salahuddin.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and the Joint Operations Command said Thursday that major offensives were launching to retake Islamic State last bastions in Salahuddin’s Shirqat and Kirkuk’s Hawija. Other offensives had launched earlier this week at the group’s holdouts in western Anbar’s borders with Syria.