Nine ISIS (ISIL, IS, Daesh) terrorists were killed on Monday in an airstrike carried out by Iraqi army fighter jets West of Anbar, a source said.
The Iraqi army launched a new operation to defeat a small enclave of ISIS militants in Salaheddin province on Tuesday, in retaliation against a string of suicide attacks in Samarra the day before.
Iraq's joint military forces seized back a H3 strategic airbase controlled by the ISIL in the Western part of Anbar province on Wednesday. "H3 airbase located 40 kilometers from the town of al-Rataba in Anbar is now under the full control of the Iraqi forces," Hashd al-Shaabi Commander Nazem al-Jugheifi Said Wednesday.
Eyewitnesses have said that ISIL terrorists have faced horror after nearly two dozen of their military bases and positions in the city of Mosul have been targeted by Iraqi air forces on Sunday.
The Iraqi fighter jets pounded and destroyed a strategic military base of the ISIS terrorist group in the Western part of Anbar province.
40 ISIS vehicles have been completely destroyed near Amiriyat al-Fallujah east of Anbar province by Iraqi airstrikes. An Iraqi military source said the convoy managed to break through the security cordon imposed around the recently-liberated city of Fallujah and escaped to an open desert area.
8 Ex-Iraqi security officers, who had joined the terror group, have been executed by ISIL accusing them of cooperating with Baghdad government after several ISIS senior commanders were killed in the Iraqi airstrikes.