Seventy-five ISIS militants were killed during operations in Al-Anbar, in the last 72 hours, according to Brigadier-General Yahya Rasul.
Spokesman for the Iraqi army’s Joint Operations Command (JOC), Yahya Rasul, said that the joint forces of Iraqi army and Hashd al-Shaabi fighters killed 75 terrorists in Al-Qaim district, which was ISIS’ last stronghold in the western city of Anbar, since the beginning of the operation on Thursday.
That day, the Iraqi prime minister’s office announced that the army had launched fresh operations aimed at capturing Anbar’s ISIS-held border towns of Al-Qaim and Rawa.
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