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10-06-2020
By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report + Agencies
BAGHDAD/ TEHRAN: Fighters from Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), known as Hashd al-Sha’abi, destroyed a headquarters believed to belong to the new ringleader of the Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terror group in the Arab country.
The recent operations that almost ended the presence of Daesh in the hotspots east of Salahuddin and Kirkuk, indicate that the PMF penetrated the depth of the terror group’s strongholds in al-Zarka sector where the security forces have not entered these areas before, Ali al-Husseini, a spokesman for the Popular Mobilization Units, told Shafaq News Agency on Tuesday.
He confirmed the destruction of a large headquarters of Daesh by the PMU and security forces, which contains rooms, supplies and equipment, as well as secret documents that cannot be disclosed in Al-Zarka sector, indicating that the headquarters belongs to the new Daesh leader in Iraq or a regional leader of the terrorist organization.
“The eastern areas of Salahuddin and Kirkuk are almost empty of Daesh, with the exception of individual numbers moving between the regions in search of escape havens from the security forces.”
During the past few days, comprehensive security operations were launched on the northern and eastern outskirts of Diyala, with Kirkuk and Salahuddin, as well as other operations between Salahuddin and Kirkuk called “the heroes of Iraq – victory of sovereignty” to purge those areas of Daesh hotspots and dens.
Meanwhile, Hashd al-Sha’abi militia, or as it is officially called the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), says its forces have killed a top ringleader of the foreign-backed Daesh terrorist outfit in the Arab country’s eastern province of Diyala.
Sadiq al-Hosseini, a senior official of Hashd al-Sha’abi, told Al Maloomah news outlet on Sunday that the terrorist commander was taken out in Haoz al-Waqf area, northeast of Diyala.
He said that Hashd al-Sha’abi was able to pin-point the ringleader through precise intelligence collected by its units around the area, which is located some 25 kilometers northeast of the provincial capital Baqubah.
He called the operation another great defeat for the Daesh terrorist group at the hands of Iraqi fighters.
Yilmaz al-Najjar, the PMU’s commander in northern Iraq, said Hashd al-Sha’abi fighters also arrested three other Daesh commanders in the north-central Kirkuk province using intelligence sources.
