Federal Police confiscates IS training center, media office north of Salahuddin
Iraqi Federal Police. File photo.
In a brief statement on Tuesday, Lt. Gen. Shaker Jawdat, chief of Federal Police, said “troops confiscated a training center for the militant group. There was a media office inside at al-Zab region.”
Troops deployed in Zab, according to Jawdat, “are ready to go through the second phase of Hawija liberation.”
IS holds pivotal regions that link between each of Diyala, Salahuddin and Kirkuk, posing threats to the liberated regions.
On Sunday, the Joint Operations Command announced completing the first phase of operations to recapture Hawija, the group’s holdout in southwestern Kirkuk.
Launched last week, the operation managed to take over al-Zab river region, the northern part of Makhoul mountains and several villages west of Tigris River.
Federal Police announced, earlier this week, liberation of eastern Shirqat, the group’s holdout in north of Salahuddin.
225 militants had been killed since the launch of operations in Shirqat, Jawdat previously announced.
The Iraqi army said in September its forces recaptured the western coast of Shirqat, located south of Mosul, on the west bank of the Tigris river, after being surrounded for months by Iraqi troops and the pro-government Shi’ite militias.