Islamic State terrorist group resume attacks in western Iraq

Iraq’s Federal Police announced that one of its units killed an ISIS operative as a terrorist group was trying to open a store in the Qadiriyah area in Mukashifa, northwest of Baghdad.

ISIS has carried out attacks in several locations in Iraq in recent days, namely in areas between the governorates of Diyala, Kirkuk, and Saladin, all the way to Nineveh.

The Federal Police said in a statement that the operation took place after a police unit clashed with terrorists.

Security units are still searching for two terrorists after the body of a third was found. A policeman was also injured during the operation, according to the statement.

In the western Anbar province, the Imam Ali combat division arrested a wanted prominent ISIS leader in the Nuaimiya area.

Meanwhile, the military thwarted an operation to smuggle 18 bags of TNT, weighing about 500kg, into the country. The Counter-Terrorism Unit explained in a statement that it seized the material after it detected four terrorists in a vehicle trying to bring the explosives from Syria to Iraq through the Naim village.

Separately, the Saladin Operations Command of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) killed an ISIS zakat collector in an ambush in Tikrit.

The spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Major General Yahya Rasool, announced the killing of an ISIS military commander, known as Abu Rahma, in Samarra.

Rasool said in a statement that a police patrol killed him during a clash with a with three terrorists while they were robbing shops in Qadiriyah.

Source: Aawsat