Two suicide attackers killed, Islamic State rest houses destroyed, west Anbar: Commander
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Two suicide attackers were killed, while three rest houses of Islamic State members were destroyed, north of Ramadi city, Anbar police announced.
“Security troops carried out a wide-scale military operation in al-Therthar island, north of Ramadi, leaving two suicide bombers killed, three rest houses of IS destroyed and a weapon stash exploded,” Maj. Gen. Hadi Rezeij, commander of Anabr police, told BasNews on Wednesday.
“Information from the intelligence department indicated presence of IS cell in the island and that there were plans to attack al-Bou Ali al-Jasim region, north of Ramadi,” he added.
The attackers, according to Rezeij, “are involved in killing army and police officers over the past few days, as well as targeting security forces’ vehicles through explosives across Anbar.”
Seven Islamic State members killed in U.S. Coalition airstrike, west of Anbar
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Seven Islamic State members were killed inside a tunnel in west of Anbar, a military source from the province said on Wednesday.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said, “troops of the 29th brigade of the seventh division, backed by tribes, chased, today, seven militants in desert of Hit city, west of Ramadi.”
“The militants went inside one of the tunnels in Hit desert before they were besieged,” the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added.
“U.S.-led Coalition jets shelled the tunnel and killed all the militants,” he said.
Iraqi forces kill high ranking ISIS commander near Ramadi
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iraqi Armed Forces carried out a special operation this week that targeted a high ranking commander of the so-called 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....
(ISIS) in the al-Anbar Governorate.
The Iraqi military was able to gather important details about the location of the ISIS commander before they launched their operation to kill him and his associates near the lovely provincial capital of al-Ramadi.
According to Iraqi sources, the Islamic State emir of the Tharthar Desert, ’Omar Safouk, was killed by the Iraqi military in northern al-Ramadi this week.
The Iraqi sources added that Safouk was killed alongside a dozen of his associates in the Tharthar Desert of al-Ramadi.