Iraqi Police Kill At Least 20 ISIL Terrorists in Beiji
The Iraqi police’s anti-terrorist operations in the nearby areas of Beiji left at least 20 ISIL fighters dead and some others injured, the Federal Police Command confirmed.
“Today, forces of the federal police stormed the ISIL positions in Beiji, North of Tikrit, and killed 20 elements of the ISIL terrorist group,” Chief of the Federal Police Forces Raed Shaker Jawdat announced.
The ISIL Takfiri terrorists currently control shrinking swathes of Syria and Iraq. They have threatened all communities, as they continue their atrocities in Iraq and Syria.
Senior Iraqi officials have blamed Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and some Gulf Arab states for the growing terrorism in their country.
The ISIL has links with Saudi intelligence and is believed to be indirectly supported by the Israeli regime.
5 ISIL terrorists killed in army’s mortar attacks, airstrike in Anbar
Provincial sources confirmed that over 5 ISIL fighters were killed and 12 others were wounded in the army’s mortar and air attacks against the rebel group’s positions in the Western province of Anbar.
A military chopper pounded an ISIL position at a village near the town of Saqlawiyah, just North of the militant-held city of Fallujah, which itself located some 50 km West of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, leaving five killed and 12 others wounded, the source said on condition of anonymity.
The ISIL group has seized most of Anbar province and tried to advance toward Baghdad during the past few months, but several counter attacks by security forces and Shiite militias have pushed them back.
The security situation in Iraq has drastically deteriorated since June last year, when bloody clashes broke out between Iraqi security forces and the ISIL militants, who took control of the country’s Northern city of Mosul and later seized swathes of territories after Iraqi security forces abandoned their posts in Nineveh and other predominantly provinces.
Over 12 ISIL terrorists killed in Iraqi Police’s operations in Salahuddin province
Meanwhile, spokesman for the Iraqi Interior Ministry Brigadier General SaadMaan confirmed that the country’s counter-terrorism forces stormed the ISIL fighters in the battlefields near Beiji and killed at least 12 fighters.
Maan said that the Iraqi police gunned down two separate groups of the ISIL militants and captured others in two operations near Beiji North of Tikrit, in Salahuddin province.
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