The Iraqi authorities announced this Tuesday the death of two “dangerous terrorists” of the Islamic State in a bombing carried out by the Army against a “hideout” of the jihadist group in the province of Diyala, located in the northeast of the country.
The Joint Operations Command of Iraq has indicated in its account on the social network
Thus, he explained that the ground troops later moved to the place, where “they found the bodies of two dangerous terrorists from the leadership of the Islamic State”, without their identities and positions having been revealed for now, and “a quantity of weapons, ammunition and equipment”.
“Our heroic security forces have pointed their weapons against the defeated terrorist groups of the Islamic State and are destroying their collapsed hideouts,” he stressed, before telling the jihadists that “they have no escape” and that “death is their inevitable destiny.” “.
The jihadist group retains several hundred fighters distributed in several traveling cells within Iraqi territory, where they have carried out several attacks in recent months, despite the territorial defeat of their ‘caliphate’ in 2017.
