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An Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) commander said on Monday that 10 hotbeds of the Islamic State terrorist group were destroyed during an ongoing military operation in the country.
“Security forces, PMF also known as Hashed al-Sha’abi, backed by Iraqi warplanes, destroyed 10 Islamic State hideouts and killed all terrorists inside as part of the fourth phase of the Operation Will of Victory in the desert of Anbar on the Iraqi-Syrian border,” Qatari al-Obeidi, a senior commander of the Popular Mobilization Forces said.
The operation was carried out based on intelligence information, he said, adding that the security forces launched a wide-scale campaign to search for other IS hideouts in the area.
The Will of Victory Operation’s first phase had been launched in July, targeting IS elements in western regions.
According to the Iraqi military, 13 villages were cleared in areas south of Nineveh during the operation’s third phase.
Iraq declared the collapse of Islamic State’s territorial influence in Iraq in November 2017 with the recapture of Rawa, a city on Anbar’s western borders with Syria, which was the group’s last bastion in Iraq.
