Dozens of Daesh militants killed in separate attacks across Iraq.

Iraqi government forces, supported by fighters from allied Popular Mobilization Units, have carried out separate clean-up operations against remnants of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group across the country, killing dozens of the terrorists in the process.

The media bureau of Popular Mobilization Units, known by Hashd al-Sha’abi, said in a statement on Tuesday that Iraqi Air Force fighter jets launched an airstrike against a pickup truck as it was traveling along a road in the Hawi region east of Samarra, located 125 kilometers (78 miles) north of the capital Baghdad.

The statement added that the aerial raid was mounted following a tip-off about Daesh militants in the area, noting that eight Takfiris were killed as a result.

The development came a day after the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) said in a statement that it had carried out a raid on Daesh hideouts in the desert of the country’s western province of Anbar.

The statement said CTS troops pounded the positions of the extremist militants and clashed with them, leaving eight of them dead.

Later on, the troops searched the hideouts and found two would-be bombers wearing explosive belts, killing one of them. The other blew himself up without causing casualties among the troops, the statement added.

Moreover, a total of five Daesh militants were killed in two incidents in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala on Monday.