BAGHDAD- At least 27 militants of the extremist Daesh group were killed in an offensive targeting their positions in a mountainous area in northern Iraq, media reports quoted the Iraqi military as saying on Wednesday.
Iraqi security forces, backed by US-led coalition and Iraqi aircraft, launched the offensive on March 9 and continued for 14 days in the Makhmour mountain range in southeast of Nineveh’s provincial capital Mosul, Yahia Rasoul, spokesman of the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi forces, said in a statement.
The offensive included 312 airstrikes that destroyed 120 IS positions and caves used by the extremist militants, leaving an unknown number of IS militants killed inside the bombarded sites, while snipers from the security forces spotted and killed 27 of those who escaped the attacked positions, the statement said.
