SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Iraqi air force on Wednesday struck the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group hideouts in Hamrin mountain.
The Iraqi Security Media cell in a statement announced the air force attacked terrorist targets in the mountain and killed a number of terrorists.
The statement did not specify the number of the killed ISIS terrorists.
Following the air raid, a force from the Iraqi counter-terrorism service reached the attacked site of the terrorists, searching the area and finding a number of dead terrorist elements, the statement added without elaboration.
Hamrin mountain range and the surrounding remote areas are turned into a hotspot for ISIS remnants since its major defeat by the Kurdish and Iraqi forces in 2017.
The remnants of militants built a large number of hide-outs and dens in what is so-known as the disputed areas, claimed by both the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the Federal government.
ISIS exploited the space to regroup and carry out partisan attacks inside the area’s security vacuum.
