September 7 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Iraqi authorities announced on Saturday the death of three suspected members of the Islamic State in a bombing carried out by their Air Force in the province of Diyala, located north of the capital, Baghdad, against targets of the jihadist group.
The Joint Operations Command said in a statement posted on its social media account X that the attack was carried out by F-16 aircraft in the mountainous area of Hamrin, where the bodies of the three suspects were found.
He stressed that in the area they also found “explosive belts, hand grenades, various weapons, logistical materials, mobile devices and other materials”, before emphasizing that it is “a preventive operation based on precise intelligence information”.
“We have achieved positive results in eliminating the remnants of the defeated Islamic State groups,” he said, before recalling the “martyrs” who fell in the fight against terrorism and promising to continue operations until “eliminating the remnants of terrorism.”
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani said on Monday that the jihadist group “no longer poses a threat” to the country and argued that the cells present in its territory are “isolated groups” that have been cornered by security forces operations.
The jihadist group has several hundred fighters spread across several mobile cells within Iraqi territory, where it has carried out several attacks in recent months, despite the territorial defeat of its “caliphate” and the operations carried out by the security forces.
In fact, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) acknowledged in July that the group is reconstituting itself in Iraq and Syria and that it is regaining its lost capacity after the disappearance of the ‘caliphate’. In this regard, it said that the Islamic State had carried out more than 150 attacks in these two countries between January and June, so it could double the number of attacks in 2023 if it maintains the pace for the rest of the year.
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