Joint Operations Command confirms killing 4 militants between Saladin and Kirkuk

Shafaq News/ The Joint Operations Command announced, on Friday, that four ISIS militants were killed in an airstrike targeting their hideout in the Zarka area, located along the border between Saladin and Kirkuk.

According to a statement from the Security Media Cell, the Military Intelligence Directorate, under the supervision and planning of the Joint Operations Command's targeting cell, monitored a group of four ISIS militants in one of the hideouts in the Zarka sector.

The statement added that F-16 aircraft carried out two airstrikes on the hideout, destroying it and killing the ISIS members inside.

Earlier on Friday, a security source in Kirkuk stated to Shafaq News that Iraqi warplanes targeted two ISIS positions in the Wadi al-Shay area, located 45 kilometers south of Kirkuk in the Daquq district.

The source stated that security forces are carrying out a military operation at the strike site to verify the details of the attack and determine whether it resulted in casualties.