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.