An informed source within the paramilitary Peshmerga force announced on Friday, that 61 ISIS militants had been killed during violent clashes and air strikes by the international coalition northwest of Kirkuk.

Ahlul Bayt News Agency - An informed source within the paramilitary Peshmerga force announced on Friday, that 61 ISIS militants had been killed during violent clashes and air strikes by the international coalition northwest of Kirkuk.

The source said in a statement that, “This morning, Peshmerga forces foiled a massive attack by ISIS on the villages of Kura and Kaba in the district of al-Dabs (45 km northwest of Kirkuk), resulting in the death of 11 elements of the organization, while 50 others have been killed in an aerial bombing by the international coalition.”

Meanwhile Media War Cell announced starting the process of liberalization of the southern areas of the city of Fallujah, which is considered as ISIS capital in Anbar province.

The cell said in a statement that, “Baghdad Operations Command, after the completion of all the necessary arrangements on the ground, started an extensive operation to liberate the areas in south of Fallujah,” pointing out that, “The first division was able to liberate Nuaimiya police station and raise the Iraqi flag over its building southeast of Fallujah, while the sixth division had managed to liberate the village of Ma’ameer.”

The statement adde, “The first day of the liberation operation in southern Fallujah areas enabled the first division in Nuaimiya to kill twenty terrorists as well as dismantling 12 explosive devices,” indicating that, “The sixth division in the village of Ma’ameer was able to kill 14 terrorists and destroy two booby-trapped vehicles, in addition to dismantling 10 improvised explosive devices, while the seventeenth division had managed to kill 17 terrorists and dismantle 36 bombs.”





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