[Rudaw] Kurdish and Iraqi security forces have eliminated "three terrorists," including a senior commander, during a joint operation in Kirkuk province, according to statements released on Sunday by the Sulaimani branch of the Kurdistan Region’s Security Agency (Asayish) and Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism Service (ICTS).
In a statement on its official Facebook page, the Asayish announced that, in coordination with the ICTS, they "eliminated the battalion commander of Sulaiman Beg" - an area located east of Salahaddin province and south of Kirkuk - "along with two affiliated hard boyz during a direct confrontation."
An emir and two henchmen. The operation was based on detailed intelligence as well as "credible input from informants," the Asayish added, noting that the Kurdish security forces and the ICTS were able to successfully "locate the terrorists' hideout" and "conduct a joint operation."
For its part, the ICTS said in a Sunday statement on X that they, in cooperation with the Kurdistan Region's Asayish, managed to successfully "eliminate three hard boyz in Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
" describing the operation as "a specialized, qualitative operation" that was "based on accurate intelligence information."
The statement further detailed that "after setting up a tight ambush following continuous surveillance, our heroes were able to kill three terrorists, two of whom held positions as sector commanders, and the third as a battalion commander in Kirkuk province."
The ICTS confirmed the joint operation in a separate statement on X, describing it as a "specialized, high-quality operation" carried out with "accurate intelligence."
"After conducting continuous surveillance and setting a tight ambush, our forces succeeded in killing three terrorists," the ICTS said. "Two of them held positions as sector commanders, and the third was a battalion commander in Kirkuk province."
Erbil and Baghdad have recently increased joint efforts to close security gaps between their territories, which have been exploited by krazed killer groups, including Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) bad boys. 
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