Iraqi army troops,
supported by allied fighters from Popular Mobilization Units, have
successfully purged more than a dozen villages north of the capital
Baghdad of Daesh Takfiri terrorists.
The media bureau of the volunteer fighters, commonly known by the Arabic name Hashd al-Sha’abi, announced in a statement
on Sunday that they, together with government troops, had cleansed four
villages, including al-Anaz, Arab Rashid Mahmoud and Arab As’af, in
al-Moshahedah region of the extremists following multi-pronged military
operations there.
Hashd al-Sha’abi fighters and army soldiers had earlier purged
fifteen villages surrounding Tarmiyah town, located about
25 kilometers north of Baghdad, of Daesh militants. Iraqi government forces are seen in an area north of the
capital Baghdad on July 21, 2019 during the second phase of the Will of
Victory Operation against remnants of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.
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Also on Sunday, pro-government Iraqi forces could wipe Daesh Takfiri
terrorists off Basatin ‘Awad and Hurrah districts west of Tarmiyah.
Second-in-Command of the Joint Operations Command (JOC), Lieutenant General Abdul Amir Rasheed Yarallah, said in a statement on
Saturday that Iraqi military forces had launched the second phase of a
major operation to hunt down the remnants of the Daesh terror group
north of Baghdad and areas nearby.
The statement noted that the offensive aims to “to beef up security
and stability in areas north of Baghdad and surrounding areas in the
provinces of Diyala, Salahuddin and Anbar.”
It said that units from the Baghdad Operations Command, command
operations from Diyala, Samarra and Anbar, the Federal Police Command,
rapid response teams, voluntary Hashd al-Sha’abi fighters and the
special forces regiment of the Operations Department of the Chief of
Staff of the Army as well as the Special Task Force of the Directorate
of Military Intelligence were participating in the offensive.
Iraq's army and the voluntary forces began the first phase of the
Will of Victory Operation early on July 7, the military said in a
statement, adding that the operation would last several days and was
aimed at securing the province of Anbar and the central and northern
regions of Salahuddin and Nineveh.
“We press on the hands of our heroic forces that will achieve victory
with the will of its heroes against the gangs of Daesh,” Iraqi Prime
Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi said.
“May God protect you and make you victorious,” he added.
Former Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi declared the end of
military operations against Daesh in the country on December 9, 2017.
On July 10 that year, he had formally declared victory over Daesh in
Mosul, which served as the terrorists’ last main urban stronghold in
Iraq.
In the run-up to Mosul's liberation, Iraqi army soldiers and
volunteer Hashd al-Sha’abi fighters had made sweeping gains against
Daesh.
Iraqi forces took control of eastern Mosul in January 2017 after 100
days of fighting, and launched the battle in the west on February 19
last year.
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