The Joint Operations Command announced that a number of terrorists were killed in a specific operation east of Salah al-Din.
The Joint Operations Command stated in a statement to the Security Media Cell, ‘After the successful security operation carried out in the Qara Hanjir district, east of Kirkuk, by the security forces in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, which resulted in the killing of a member of ISIS terrorist gangs and the arrest of another terrorist, and during his interrogation, he admitted to the existence of an important hideout for ISIS elements in Balkana Mountains within the eastern Salah al-Din operations sector.
It added, ‘With high coordination between the Iraqi National Security Service and the Asayish of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, and with the supervision, follow-up and planning of the Air Targeting Cell of the Joint Operations Command and the use of technical resources, the den was monitored with terrorist elements inside it, and the air hawks (F-16 aircraft) belonging to the Air Force Comm
and, according to this information, targeted this hideout and completely destroyed it on the terrorist elements.”
It continued: ‘Our various security units will continue their heroic work throughout all regions of the country in the spirit of one team to pursue and follow up on the defeated terrorist elements that will have no place in the land of Iraq.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency