Iraq in Recent Week, 20 July 2020
The headline of the most important news of Iraq in recent days
The headline of the most important news of Iraq in recent days
During the 4th phase of Operation ”Heroes of Iraq” in Diyala province, Iraqi security forces destroyed 59 ISIS hideouts, detained 7 terrorists and killed 3 others, treated more than 80 IEDs, seized 7 suicide belts and destroyed several large arms caches.
ISWNews Analysis Group: The convoy of US terrorist forces in the Mukashifah area in the Saladin province has been attacked by Iraqi resistance groups.
A fifth Turkish soldier has been killed in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Turkey’s defence ministry announced in a statement late on Sunday night, almost a month since Ankara began air and ground operations against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) sites in the area.
ISWNews Analysis Group: The Saraya Thurat al-Ashrin al-Thaniyah group attacked a logistic convoy of US Army en route from Diwaniyah to Al-Samawiyah.
Assassination of Iraqi expert security analyst, Hisham al-Hashimi, was shocking. He was among the best and knowledgeable analyst in security, specially of ISIS and Al Qaeda organization.
ISWNews Analysis Group: The Quraysh al-Alamiyah, a network affiliated with the ISIS terrorist group, released a picture claiming the successful assassination of Hisham al-Hashimi, a well-known Iraqi extremism expert.
Following a joint meeting of the Iraqi military delegation with the coordination of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region Peshmerga Ministry with the region’s military forces in the city of Dohuk, Iraqi border guards were deployed in the Zakho area to prevent Turkish operations.
ISWNews Analysis Group: The detained members of Kataib Hezbollah of Iraq have been released after being accused in court.
ISWNews Analysis Group: Turkish warplanes bombing north of Iraq continuing under Claw-Tiger operation.
ISWNews Analysis Group: 14 members of Kataib Hezbollah were arrested Thursday night by counter terrorism service of Iraq and short after forced to handing them over to Hashad Sha’abi security office.
ISWNews Analysis Group: Last night he Iraqi Counter Terrorism forces with supervision of US forces raided a Kataib Hezbollah place in south of Baghdad and kidnapped 14 individuals.