Here is a summary of recent Iraqi efforts to fight and kill jihadi terrorists:
Along the Syrian/Iraqi border, the 8th Iraqi Army Division continues to reinforce border security by engaging and repelling ISIS militants as they try to flee the offensive in the Middle Euphrates River Valley.
Iraqi units continue to conduct coordinated strikes, even as ISIS elements probe border positions with vehicle-borne IEDs, motorcycles, small arms fires and mortars.
On 20 November, the Iraqi air force launched two air strikes targeting an ISIS weapons facility in a building that housed 30 ISIS fighters. This operation also signifies the ability of the Iraqi Security Forces to protect its borders and to uproot cells.
In Mosul, Iraqi SWAT forces, backed by coalition air support, carried out a security operation in the al-Menkar village that resulted in five enemies killed. More importantly, this operation demonstrated ISF are strengthening their intelligence-gathering to disrupt enemy operations and to protect the Iraqi citizens from bombings and kidnappings.
Another example of a successful ISF operation which resulted in the death of an ISIS senior leader code-named Katkut, who is known to have planned and conducted attacks in Al Hadr southwest of Mosul. He was killed in Saladin province after fleeing from the scene of an attack earlier in the week.
This should be another reminder to those who overlook the simple fact that we won the Iraq War.
In bonus territory, no chemical weapons are used even against such vile scum as ISIL killers.
