Four members of the Islamic State, including two senior leaders, were killed in an airstrike carried out by Iraqi aircraft in the Hamrin Mountains in eastern Iraq, security officials said on Saturday.
The caliphate collapsed in 2017 in Iraq, where it once had a base just a 30-minute drive from Baghdad, and in Syria in 2019, after a sustained military campaign by a U.S.-led coalition.
Four members of the Islamic State, including two senior leaders, were killed in an airstrike carried out by Iraqi aircraft in the Hamrin Mountains in eastern Iraq, security officials said on Saturday.
It was not immediately clear what the impact of the assessment would be on the US mission in Iraq, however, a US deployment on top of the mountain to evacuate civilians would seem unlikely.
Killed in Eastern Iraq BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four members of the Islamic State, including two senior leaders, were killed in an airstrike carried out by Iraqi aircraft in the Hamrin Mountains in ...
The airstrike destroyed the hideout in the Hamrin Mountains and thwarted an attempted ... of swathes of territory in northern and central Iraq in 2014. Their so-called caliphate was brought ...