Tuesday, 23 February, 2021 - 09:00
US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt-2 (File photo: Reuters) Baghdad- Asharq Al-Awsat
US-led international coalition warplanes raided a number of ISIS sites in Wadi al-Sham area of Kirkuk governorate, northern Iraq, announced the Joint Operations Command.
The Security Media Cell said in a statement Monday, that the Joint Operations Command ordered the attack after receiving accurate intelligence information from the Iraqi National Intelligence Service.
Following the strikes, the joint force from the 45th Brigade of the 8th Division of the Iraqi army accompanied by a unit of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service in Kirkuk combed the area and found seven dead terrorists, whose identities and ranks will be identified, according to the statement.
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Tuesday, 9 February, 2021 - 07:45
An Iraqi soldier walks at the Qayyarah air base, where US-led troops in 2017 had helped Iraqis plan out the fight against ISIS in Mosul in northern Iraq, before a planned US pullout on March 26, 2020. (AFP) Baghdad – Asharq Al-Awsat
The US-led Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS is expanding the scope of its cooperation with Iraq in various fields, undeterred by the various terrorist attacks against its logistical support convoys.
Iraqi Joint Operations Command spokesman Major General Tahsin al-Khafaji stressed that the coalition continues to support the security forces, noting that it began providing the border guards with smart towers, thermal cameras and technical equipment used for reconnaissance.