60 Terrorists Killed in Iraqi Airstrike on Daesh Targets in Mosul
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Iraqi army announced that 60 foreign-baked terrorists have been killed in an airstrike carried out by the army’s air forces on the positions of Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) terrorist group west of Mosul, local reports said.
The Iraqi army command, in a statement, said the air force attacked two districts West of the northern city of Mosul following coordination with the Popular Mobilization Forces, killing 60 terrorists and destroying 15 vehicles of the Daesh militants, including three booby-trapped vehicles.
A rocket launch pad used by the terrorists was also destroyed in the operation, the statement read, according to the Arabic-language Alsumaria news agency.
In another development, one individual was killed and 6 others injured in two explosions near two shops south of Baghdad, police sources said.
On October 16, 2016, the Iraqi army backed by Federal Police and the PMF, also known as Hashd al-Shaabi, launched a massive operation to retake Mosul, the last major stronghold of the Takfiri militants of Daesh in the Arab country.
In recent years, Iraq has been facing the threat of terrorism, mainly posed by the Daesh terrorist group.
Daesh militants made swift advances in much of northern and western Iraq over the summer of 2014, after capturing large swaths of northern Syria.
However, a combination of concentrated attacks by the Iraqi military and the volunteer forces, who rushed to take arms after top Iraqi cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani issued a fatwa calling for fight against the militants, blunted the edge of Daesh offensive and later forced the Takfiri group to withdraw from most of the areas it had occupied.
