SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Kurdistan’s Counter-Terrorism Group (CTG) on Monday said it carried out joint anti-Islamic State (ISIS) ops in Kirkuk province with the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service (ICTS) and coalition forces.
The operation targeted hide-outs of the ISIS remnants in Kirkuk’s Hawija sub-district, said the General Directorate of the CTG in a statement.
The CTG forces along with the ICTS attacked the targets on the ground backed by the U.S.-led coalition forces in the air, it added in the statement.
The operation resulted in destroying the ISIS militants’ hide-outs in the area and seizing several caches, weapons, and ammunition, according to the statement.
CTG further stated that they thwarted ISIS plans to carry out several terrorist acts in Kirkuk, Hawija, and Salah al-Din province.
ISIS took over vast swathes of Iraq in 2014. The group was declared territorially defeated in 2017, but since losing its last significant piece of territories it has resorted to guerrilla attacks.
Its remaining thousands of militants have in recent years mostly hid out in remote hinterlands though they are still capable of carrying out insurgent-style attacks.
