BAGHDAD, Dec 8 (NNN-NINA) – Six Daesh militants were killed yesterday, in an airstrike, in a mountainous area, in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala, the Iraqi military said.
Acting on intelligence reports, a force from the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS), surrounded, at dawn, a tunnel used by the militants as a hideout, in the Himreen mountain range, in the northern part of Diyala Province, a CTS statement said.
Later on, Iraqi fighter jets were called in for an airstrike that destroyed the hideout and killed six militants inside, the statement added.
Over the past months, Iraqi security forces have conducted operations against extremist militants, to crack down on their intensified activities.
