Iraqi Security Forces kill prominent ISIS member in Kirkuk
ERBIL, KRG, Iraq (North Press) – On Saturday, Iraqi Ministry of Defense said, its forces killed the leader of the sniper detachment in the Islamic State (ISIS), nicknamed Abu Qutada, in Kirkuk.
In an ambush, the Mechanized Infantry Division of the Iraqi army managed to kill Abu Qutada and wound two of the extremist organization in the al-Bu Muhammad area in Wadi al-Shay in Kirkuk governorate, the ministry stated.
Wadi al-Shay is located southwest of the town of Daquq, about 40 km south of Kirkuk, where ISIS sleeper cells are still active in that vast area.
Simultaneously, the Iraqi army and the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) launched an eight-side operation in the Hamrin Mountain range in Diyala governorate, in the center of the country.
“The operation is targeting more than twenty targets of ISIS deployed over an area of 100 km,” the spokesman for the Diyala area in the PMF, Sadiq al-Husseini, said.
The operation has come to block the void spaces, comb the rough hills, and secure more of the Kirkuk-Baghdad road, which passes in the northeastern part of Diyala,” he added.