ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq’s top military spokesperson on Sunday announced the killing of the military commander of the @$(!# in Diyala in an air operation a day prior, state media reported.
F-16 jets struck “important hideouts” of @$(!# in a Diyala village on Saturday after the terror group tried to “destabilize security and create strife” in the province, Yehia Rasool, military spokesperson to Iraq’s prime minister, told state media.
“A security force went out this morning to search the targeted place and found four bodies of @$(!# terrorist gang members and destroyed weapons and equipment … among the dead was the so-called criminal soldier Majeed Mayouf, who is considered one of the most prominent @$(!# leaders,” Rasool said.
In December, a deadly @$(!# attack in Diyala’s Muqdadiya district (known as Sharaban in Kurdish) left at least 10 civilians dead and 17 injured.
