MADRID 8 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Iraqi authorities announced this Monday the death of six alleged terrorists from the Islamic State jihadist group in a bombing carried out with F-16 fighters in the town of Al Aith, located in the Iraqi governorate of Saladin, in the center-north of the country. .
The attack has been planned under the direction of the Joint Operations Command and based on information from the country’s Intelligence services, as reported by the Iraqi Media Security Cell, linked to the Ministry of Defense, in its account on the Facebook social network.
“Our security units continue to impose just reprisals against the remnants of the Islamic State cells,” the document reads.
The Prime Minister of Iraq, Mohamed Shia al Sudani, recently assured 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 are cornered by the operations of the security forces.
However, the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) recognized in July that the group is reconstituting itself in Iraq and Syria and that it is recovering its capacity lost after the disappearance of the ‘caliphate’. The jihadist group retains several hundred fighters distributed in several traveling cells within Iraqi territory.
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