Alwaght-Iraqi forces have killed a ISIS terrorist group commander in an operation, launched northeast of Diyala province, on Thursday, the security committee of the provincial council said.
“Intelligence of the Counter-Terrorism Service managed to kill the ISIS’s so-called Diyala State’s head (Wali), known as Abu Ayed, in Hamreen mountains,” Sadeq al-Husseini, head of the committee, has said
The Takfiri terrorist group, according to Husseini, “lost one of its main leaders in an operation that showed capabilities of the intelligence.”
Last month, Husseini announced the killing of the ISIS commander in Hamreen mountains, along with five other henchmen, in two air strikes in Hamreen mountains.
Last December, Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi declared the end of the war against ISIS terrorist group in the country.
ISIS terrorists have been driven from all the territory they once held inside Iraq, al-Abadi announced in Baghdad.
"Our forces are in complete control of the Iraqi-Syrian border and I therefore announce the end of the war against Daesh," Abadi added, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS
The war against ISIS has displaced nearly five million people, with tens of thousands of civilians and militants killed since the launch of the offensives to recapture occupied cities.
The offensive was successfully carried out by Iraqi government troops and the paramilitary group known as Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) better known as Hashd al-Sha’abi.
