Seventy-four Daesh militants were killed Saturday in clashes with Iraqi security forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, the Iraqi army sources said.

Iraqi troops killed 27 militants in Tikrit, the administrative center of the northern province of Saladin, and 40 others in Ramadi, the capital of the western province of Anbar, Iraq's Ministry of Defense said in a statement, adding that the troops also destroyed an armored vehicle belonging to the militants.

Another seven militants were killed in clashes with Kurdish Peshmerga in the town of Sinjar, located 120 km west of Mosul, Lieutenant Shirzad Zahuli of Peshmerga forces told The Anadolu Agency.

An Iraqi officer, Halid ad-Deraji told earlier Saturday that Deraji said that the security forces continued to defuse bombs placed by terrorists in the region.

Heavy fighting was reported in Tikrit Saturday as Iraqi ground troops attacked from four directions in a bid to drive out ISIS fighters from the city, an Iraqi defense official said. Iraqi forces say they are close to entering city.

Also according to IraqiNews Unidentified gunmen assassinated some elements from the terrorist ISIL organization in Mosul city, the center of Nineveh province.

Reliable source told “Unidentified gunmen attacked with light weapons on Saturday morning the commander of the rockets regiment at the ISIL organization who is known as (Saeed Hamid) AKA (Abi Abdullah) in Filisteen neighborhood in Mosul city, killing him immediately with his driver and two other guards.”

Also Members of the US led coalition struck targets in Iraq and Syria overnight as part of the fight against ISIS militants, according to the combined joint task force.

The attacks struck 14 targets in Iraq and one in Syria, including positions held by militants near the cities of Mosul, Tikrit and Fallujah and killing 15 terrorists.