3 IS Militants Killed, 8 Arrested In Iraq
Date
5/12/2022 10:06:40 PM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
The Iraqi security forces on Thursday killed three Islamic State
(IS) militants and arrested eight others, including two of the
group's local leaders, Trend reports citing Xinhua .
A statement issued by the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS)
said that its forces shot dead an IS militant and arrested another
in a raid on a village south of the northern city of Kirkuk, some
250 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
Meanwhile, the CTS forces arrested five IS militants, four of
them are non-Iraqi nationals, in an operation in the city of
Kirkuk, the statement said.
The CTS forces also arrested two leaders of the extremist
organization, one in the Abu Ghraib area, west of Baghdad, and the
other at the crossing point on the Iraqi-Syrian border in the west
of the country.
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