SULAIMANI (ESTA) — The Iraqi Council of Ministers met on Thursday on issues relating to the security situation, Iraqi media reported.
Chaired by Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al Sudani the Council met in the capital, Baghdad, according to media. The Premier is also the commander-in-chief of all armed forces.
In the meeting, the officials drew attention to the security situation of the country, assessing the performance of the armed forces, particularly in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) remnants.
ISIS terror group controlled roughly a third of Iraq between 2014 and 2017.
However, the Iraqi forces and Kurdish troops backed by U.S.-led Coalition forces as well as Iran-backed Shia militias defeated the group in 2017.
While ISIS was driven out of most of the territory, many of the terrorist militants still roam in the so-called disputed territories, claimed by both the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
The disputed areas suffer from a security vacuum that ISIS remnants exploited to operate inside, avoiding being detected by security apparatus.
On Wednesday, the Iraqi Security Media cell in a statement announced Iraq’s air force attacked terrorist hie-outs in Hamrin mountain and killed a number of terrorists.
