Iraqi and US-led coalition aircraft decimated the Islamic State group’s forces fleeing the Fallujah area, destroying more than 200 vehicles and killing dozens of Jihadists, officials said on Thursday.
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A video posted by the Iraqi defense ministry and several videos posted by tribal fighters shows dozens of Islamic State vehicles burned out and with charred corpses still inside as tribal militia from Anbar fire their weapons and walk through the carnage.
Nearly 200 extra British troops are being sent to Iraq to help the country with its fight against so-called Islamic State (IS), Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has announced.
Garver estimated that the vehicles destroyed by coalition forces could have carried as many as 250 militants.
According to new reports, the usa -led coalition against ISIS launched a series of airstrikes against the terrorist organization on Wednesday south of Fallujah, Iraq.
USA aircraft unleashed dozens of guided munitions on the militants while Iraqi security forces attacked from the ground, defense officials said. Over the course of two days the coalition strikes were estimated to have killed 175 suspected IS vehicles, according to a statement from Garver.
After tough battles to breach ISIS defenses in south Fallujah, elite Iraqi forces conquered the rest of the city with relative ease.
But the pair of massive strikes are just the latest attacks that are likely eroding the militants’ combat power.
At least another 60 IS vehicles were destroyed later by air strikes conducted by Iraqi and US-led coalition aircraft on a convoy heading northwest of Fallujah, Anbar Operations Command chief Ismail Mahalawi told AFP.
Those forces will be hard to replenish.
“All ISIS militants traveling in these vehicles were killed”, he said without providing a number of people who died.
Iraqi officials say separate attacks targeting commercial areas in Baghdad have killed at least 12 civilians. Hamid al-Maliki said.
The Iraqi army and allied volunteer fighters on Thursday succeeded in recapturing more territories from Daesh terrorists on the outskirts of the recently-liberated city of Fallujah.
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Speaking at an iftar, a meal to break the fast during the month of Ramadan, on Wednesday evening, Erdogan said the terror groups were aiming to impede Turkey’s ambitions, such as becoming one of the world’s 10 strongest economies and building the world’s largest airport. At the height of the group’s power, in 2014, the group controlled almost a third of Iraq, having blitzed across large swaths of the country’s north and west and captured Iraq’s second-largest city of Mosul.
