Iraqi Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons conduct a training mission over Iraq May 26, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Russ Scalf)
On December 10, F-16 fighter jets of the Iraqi Air Force (IQAF) targeted a cell of ISIS that was hiding inside a cave in the area of al-Tun Kubri in the northern province of Kirkuk.
In a statement, the Iraqi Security Media Cell said that the airstrikes were carried out thanks to information provided by the Federal Intelligence and Investigation Agency. According to an initial assessment by the IQAF, two terrorists were killed as a result of the pinpoint airstrikes.
This was the third joint counter-terrorism operation by the IQAF and local intelligence services in less than a week. On December 6, F-16 fighter jets targeted three hideouts of ISIS cells located within the so-called Aisha camp in Hamrin mountains in the eastern province of Diyala in coordination with the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI). Later on December 7, an AC-208 Combat Caravan counter-insurgency aircraft carried out airstrikes on a hideout of ISIS in the al-Chai valley in the northern province of Kirkuk, also in coordination with the DMI.
The growing cooperation between the IQAF and local intelligence services led to a notable improvement in the security situation in remote parts of Iraq’s western, norther and eastern region.
The Iraqi military, intelligence and security forces have been developing their own counter-terrorism tactics with much success for the last few years. Today, they are operating against ISIS with very little interference from the United States-led coalition.
Oh please: they do as they are TOLD. They are nothing but puppets of the multiple countries that extract their natural resources and nothing more. Perhaps they vie to show their complete submission to their Masters by doing more inhuman killings than the next rival for table scraps but nothing more.
They do not state the number of dead as the Islamists are considered worthless.
Is just a daily entertaining news from the Middle East when you read about Muslims killing each other.
JHK is crying now
Crying and wanting to kill someone. It is common for a Muslim to have such thoughts.
Iraq only bombs those ISIS members who resist the US command.