Army warplanes destroy Islamic State convoy in Diyala
Checkpoint belonging to the Islamic State.
Baqubah (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi army warplanes destroyed on Wednesday a convoy of Islamic State militants in northeastern Diyala, a security commander was quoted saying.
Maher al-Ezzawi, commander of Dijlah Operations, told Alsumaria News that army fighter jets bombarded the convoy at Wadi Thallab (80 km northeast of Baqubah), killing al militants in it.
Ezzawi said the strike was carried out based on “accurate intelligence information”.
Violence and armed conflicts left 297 Iraqis dead and wounded during the month of ِAugust, according to a monthly count by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq which excludes security members deaths.
Islamic State militants have launched occasional attacks against security forces and civilians in Diyala over the past few months, coinciding with government operations that managed to recapture the city of Mosul, Islamic State’s largest bastion in Iraq, and the town of Tal Afar, their last holdout in Nineveh province.
The government and its military commanders intend to wage further offensives at other Islamic State havens across the country, including Diyala, seeking to mark an end to the self-proclaimed “caliphate” the group declared back in 2014. Commanders have marked Kirkuk’s town of Hawija as the next target of anti-Islamic State operations.