67 ISIL Terrorists Killed In Mosul Operations
MEP: Iraqi government forces, backed by fighters from allied Popular Mobilization Units, have killed at least nearly 70 terrorists in fresh operations conducted in the strategic northern city of Mosul, inflicting substantial losses on terror groups, an official said on Wednesday.
Federal Police Forces Commander Lieutenant General Raed Shaker Jawdat said his forces had killed 30 Daesh extremists after launching a barrage of rockets at a militant position near the Fifth Bridge in western Mosul, Arabic-language al-Forat news agency reported.
Jawdat added that a senior militant commander of the so-called Dabiq Army, identified as Abdulqader Saleh Abdulqader, was among the slain Takfiris.
Meanwhile, the media bureau of the Popular Mobilization Units – commonly known by the Arabic name Hashd al-Sha’abi, announced in a statement that the pro-government fighters, backed by the Iraqi Air Force, had struck Daesh bases in Salal and Kum al-Habib villages, killing 37 terrorists in the process.
The statement added that four pickup trucks equipped with heavy machineguns were set ablaze, and two vehicles rigged with explosives were destroyed before they could reach their destinations.
