The announcement was made by the Iraqi government, which saluted the country’s armed forces for the operation in the Hamrin Mountains that resulted in the death of the commander and eight other leaders of the Islamic State.
The Iraqi government announced this Tuesday that the commander of the Islamic State terrorist organization in Iraq was killed in a special operation in the northeastern region of the country.
The announcement was made through social network by the Iraqi government, with a statement signed by the Iraqi Prime Minister himself, Mohammed Shia’ Al Sudani.
“I congratulate our honorable people on the death of the self-proclaimed governor of Iraq of the terrorist organization Islamic State and eight of the main leaders of the organization, in a heroic operation of the Counterterrorism and National Security Service and under the supervision of Joint Operations” , reads the statement.
رئيس مجلس الوزراء: من كبار التنظيم في هاز مكافحة الإرهاب والأمن الوطني شراف العمليات ال مشتركة.#الحكومة_العراقية pic.twitter.com/JjWWx4q9Tt
— Government of Iraq – الحكومة العراقية (@IraqiGovt) October 22, 2024
The operation “targeted terrorist hideouts in the Hamrin Mountains,” the Iraqi government says.
“We support the heroes of our security forces and affirm that there is no place for terrorists in Iraq,” emphasizes Mohammed Shia’ Al Sudani, promising to “pursue” the terrorists “to their hideouts and eliminate them, until the lands of Iraq They are free from them and their sinful actions.”
After all, what is the Islamic State?
The Islamic State, which emerged in the early 2000s following dissent within Al-Qaeda, carried out a campaign of terrorism and violence from Iraq and Syria and proclaimed a caliphate in 2014, coming to control much of the territory of those two countries. At the height of its activity, the Islamic State was behind multiple terrorist attacks in Europe, which claimed dozens of lives.
In 2017, after an operation by an international coalition led by the United States, the Islamic State was practically extinct, reduced to small groups scattered in the mountains on the borders between Syria and Iraq.
Since then, several operations by Iraqi and Western forces have targeted pockets of Islamic State resistance and eliminated its leaders.
What is ISIS-K, the Afghan branch of the Islamic State responsible for the attacks in Moscow?
This year, an Afghan branch of IS claimed responsibility for the attack on Crocus City Hall, a concert hall in Moscow, where 145 people were killed and another 550 wounded.
Photo gallery: attack claimed by the self-proclaimed Islamic State leaves a trail of destruction and death in Moscow
Source: Observadora
