Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Units killed 6 ISIS militants in N. Iraq

Three Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants were killed in a raid in Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh on Friday, the Iraqi Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU) said in a statement.

The PMU stormed an ISIS hideout near the town of Hatra in the province and killed three ISIS militants inside, it said.

In the northern province of Kirkuk, an army force searched in the morning an ISIS hideout that was destroyed by an airstrike on Thursday in the rugged Wadi al-Shay area, southwest of the namesake provincial capital Kirkuk, some 250 km north of Baghdad, according to a statement issued by the Security Media Cell, a media outlet affiliated with the Iraqi Joint Operations Command.

The troops found the bodies of three ISIS militants, as well as ammunition and hand grenades, the Security Media Cell statement said.

The security situation in Iraq has improved since the defeat of the ISIS in 2017. However, ISIS militants have since melted into urban centers, deserts and rugged areas, carrying out frequent guerilla attacks against security forces and civilians.