SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Iraqi warplanes conducted 19 airstrikes against Islamic State (ISIS) in Hamrin mountain range last week, according to the prime minister’s spokesman.
The Iraqi F-16 aircraft carried out the strikes on Thursday and Friday based on “accurate intelligence” from the counter-terrorism service and the joint operations command, said Yehia Rasool, spokesman for commander-in-chief of the Iraqi armed forces.
The strikes destroyed a number of caves and hideouts of the ISIS militants in the Hamrin mountains in Saladin province, Rasool said in a tweet.
Iraq declared victory over Islamic State in December 2017 but the militants have regrouped in the Hamrin mountain range which extends into the northern provinces – an area described by officials as a “triangle of death”.
