Iraqi Army Kills 8 Terrorists in Jurf Al-Sakhar, Babil
The Iraqi army on Sunday killed eight terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Fadiliyah area of Jurf al-Sakhar sub-district, 45 km Northwest of Hilla, Babil province.
The Iraqi government troops killed eight ISIL terrorists and destroyed their vehicles during the army’s operation to purge Fadiliyah area of the terrorists, a security source said.
ISIL militants fleeing Kirkuk
Meanwhile, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Lavant (ISIL) terrorists have fled the battlefield in the western parts of Kirkuk, media reports declared on Sunday.
“The ISIL terrorists fled the area (Western Kirkuk) for an unknown place and have left behind their weapons,” Shafaq News website quoted informed sources and eyewitnesses as saying on Sunday.
A commander of the Awakening Forces said his forces have informed him that around 100 ISIL militants have fled Al-Zouyeh village in Beiji region of Salahuddin province and al-Zab area in Southwestern Kirkuk, near Beiji refinery, and left their military tools and weapons behind.
Kirkuk is a city in the north of Iraq, 236 kilometers North of Baghdad, and 83 kilometers (52 miles) South of Erbil.
Kirkuk lies in a wide zone with an enormously diverse population, which has moreover experienced dramatic demographic changes in the course of the twentieth century.
ISIL commander killed in Iraq’s Al-Anbar province
In the same context,Iraqi security forces killed tens of Takfiri militants, including a notorious ISIL commander, in the Western parts of the country.
Nabhan Hamid Jabar Al-Jamili, a senior commander of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), was killed in Al-Karameh region of Al-Anbar province in Western Iraq on Sunday.
Al-Jamili and his militants had claimed responsibility for the raping 60 teenage girls in Al-Sabihat, Al-Lahib and AlbuKhanfar villages in Al-Karameh region, Al-Youm Al-Samen news website quoted an Iraqi security official as saying on Sunday.
Meantime, a local official said that more than 74 ISIL terrorists have been killed in TouzKhormatu, Fallujah and Mosul over the past 24 hours.
On Saturday, the Iraqi air force destroyed an ISIL convoy of 18 vehicles in Anbar, killing all the terrorists inside the vehicles.
The Iraqi air force in coordination with the military intelligence destroyed the vehicles in Ana and Hadetha areas of Anbar province.
“All of the terrorists, who were inside the vehicles have been killed as well,” a security source said.
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