Iraqi Troops Kill 200 Terrorists, Retake Region In Anbar
MEP: Iraqi security forces have reportedly killed and injured scores of Daesh (ISIS/ISIL) terrorists and liberated a strategic region in the western Anbar Province, officials told reporters.
The security personnel had fully regained control over the Khalidiya Island river peninsula, major General Ismail al-Mahlawi, in charge of Anbar Operations Command, told al-Sumaria on Sunday.
He said the forces also defused some improvised explosive devices during the operations and clearing booby-trapped houses in the area.
Meanwhile, commander of Federal Police Forces, Lieutenant General Raed Shaker Jawdat, separately said that Iraqi security forces had killed nearly 200 Daesh terrorists and disarmed 250 bombs in the operation to free the Khalidiya Island.
The northern and western parts of Iraq have been plagued by gruesome violence ever since the Takfiri militants launched a campaign of terror in June 2014.
