SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Iraqi security forces detained three “terrorists” in Kirkuk and Anbar provinces, a military spokesman said on Tuesday.
“The Counter-Terrorism Service continues to cleanse the cities of Islamic Stata remnants,” said Yehia Rasool, spokesman for commander-in-chief of the armed forces.
Rasool added that the counter-terrorism forces monitor the “cowardly movements of ISIS terrorist gangs” in Kirkuk and Anbar.
Recently, Iraqi forces have stepped up efforts to detain ISIS militants in the provinces of Kirkuk, Saladin, Nineveh, Anbar and Baghdad. The security forces have detained and killed dozens of ISIS members in the past weeks.
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”.
