Iraqi security forces have killed almost two dozen members of the Takfiri Daesh terror group during a clean-up in the country’s northern province of Nineveh. Government troops and allied fighters from Popular Mobilization Units are engaged in offensives to purge the entire war-ravaged country of the extremists.
Commander of Nineveh Liberation Operations Major General Najim Abdullah al-Jubouri said on Monday that security forces staged an ambush and killed 22 Daesh Takfiris west of Mosul, located some 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of the capital Baghdad, after a tip-off that a group of militants had infiltrated into the area.
The Iraqi forces took control of eastern Mosul in January 2017 after 100 days of fighting and launched the battle in the west on February 19 last year.
Daesh began a terror campaign in Iraq in 2014, overrunning vast swathes in lightning attacks.
