Iraqi regime launched an air strike on a gathering of ISIS militiamen in Syria, killing ISIS members who planned cross-border attacks, its military said on Thursday (August 16).
F-16 fighter jets bombed and destroyed an “operations room” where the militiamen were meeting, Reuters reported.
“According to intelligence, those terrorists who were killed were planning criminal operations using suicide vests and intended to target innocents in the next few days inside Iraq,” the military said in a statement.
The Iraqi military has carried out several air strikes against ISIS in Syria since last year, with the approval of Assad and the US-led coalition.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared final victory over ISIS in December but the group still operates from pockets along the border with Syria and in a rugged mountainous area in northeastern Iraq.
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