6 IS militants, civilian killed in Iraq’s Salahudin province

Baghdad: Six Islamic State (IS) militants and a civilian had been killed throughout a conflict in Iraq’s Salahudin province, north of the capital Baghdad, the Iraqi navy stated.

Iraqi troopers, paramilitary fighters from the government-backed Hashd Shaabi, and civilians teamed up within the conflict with the IS militants besieging them within the Tulul al-Baj space in northern Salahudin, the media workplace of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command stated in a press release on Saturday.

The six IS militants killed within the conflict included two suicide bombers, it added.

Over the previous months, Iraqi safety forces have performed operations in opposition to extremist militants to crack down on their intensified actions, Xinhua information company reported.

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