The security authorities in Iraq announced today, Sunday, the killing of 4 ISIS members, including a leader, in addition to the destruction of weapons, military equipment, explosive belts, communications devices, and various logistical materials.

The Security Media Cell said in a statement on its main page on Facebook, that a team in the Military Intelligence Directorate, after follow-up and technical monitoring that continued for several continuous days, and under the supervision and planning of the Targeting Cell in the Joint Operations Command, detected “a terrorist detachment in the Al-Aith area within the Command Sector.” Salah al-Din Operations (Central Iraq).

After that, Iraqi warplanes, using F-16 aircraft, carried out a strike against the terrorist cell and killed 4 people, including “Al-Bazi,” called the “commander of the Salah al-Din district,” according to the security media statement.

This comes two days after a joint operation was carried out between Baghdad and Sulaymaniyah in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, which resulted in the killing of four ISIS members with an air strike, who were holed up inside a cave between the governorates of Kirkuk and Sulaymaniyah.

Although Iraq declared victory over ISIS in 2017 after battles fought by the Iraqi army, the Popular Mobilization Forces, and other military sectors between Baghdad and Erbil, supported by the international coalition forces led by the United States, Iraq is still fighting active terrorist cells and elements on its territory, and what He continued to lose soldiers and residents as a result of their surprise attacks.

ISIS took control of vast areas of Iraqi territory in 2014, the most prominent of which was the city of Mosul, which witnessed the declaration of the organization’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, of the “Caliphate,” and one of its most important mosques (Al-Nuri Mosque). Al-Baghdadi was assassinated in late October 2019 in northwestern Syria by American forces.