(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) A total of 22 Islamic State militants, including some of the
group's leaders, were killed in an operation in Iraq's western
province of Anbar, the Iraqi military said on Sunday, trend reports citing xinhua .
Lieutenant General Abdul Wahab al-Saadi, head of the Iraqi
Counter-Terrorism Service, said at a press conference that the
operation was carried out in two phases by an airborne force on a
rugged area north of the town of Rutba, some 400 km west of the
Iraqi capital Baghdad.
All the killed militants were wearing explosive belts, and
senior leaders were among the dead, said al-Saadi without revealing
the exact date for the beginning of the operation, confirming that
the operation is still underway.
Over the past months, Iraqi security forces have conducted
operations against extremist militants to crack down on their
intensified activities.
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