AL-ANBAR/ BAGHDAD, Iraq
Scores of ISIL militants have been killed, Iraqi reports say.
At least 112 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) militants were killed, and 15 wounded in separate ground operations led by the Iraqi army in Iraq's capital Baghdad and in Al-Anbar province on Saturday, Iraqi security officials said.
At least 59 ISIL militants were killed and 15 were wounded in Iraq’s eastern Diyala province, and in Kirkuk in southern Iraq in ground and air operations by the Iraqi army, according to the written statement of the Iraqi Defence Ministry.
The statement said the army regained control of the Sheikh Amer, Banat al Hasan regions in Baghdad and the other 30 villages in Diyala province.
In separate attacks, Lieutenant General Rashid Felih, the head of operations in al-Anbar, told Anadolu Agency (AA) that 30 ISIL militants were killed, that five ISIL armed vehicles were destroyed, and that five other bomb-laden vehicles in Al Anbar were exploded.
Rashid Felih also said that 23 ISIL militants, including ISIL mufti Abu Suhaib, were killed and that two ISIL heavy weapon laden vehicles were destroyed in Fallujah in the western Iraqi province of Al Anbar.
Meanwhile, Al-Anbar City Council President Sabah Kerhut claimed that ISIL militants took control of in Kubaysa town in Hit, a town in Al-Anbar province.
Fierce battles have been raging between Iraqi government forces and ISIL, as well as between peshmerga forces and ISIL, since mid-June when the extremist group seized control of Mosul, the second-largest city in Iraq.
An international U.S-led coalition is staging air strikes against ISIL targets in Iraq and Syria.
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