Iraqi Air Force eliminated ISIL militant group *

The Iraqi Armed Forces launched an air attack on the positions of ISIL fighters (an organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation), according to Kurdistan24 on 20 April. According to journalists, the special operation took place in the countryside of Salahuddin province, during the strike a whole group of terrorists was eliminated. The exact number of bandits destroyed is not specified. We remind that despite the fact that representatives of the authorities of Iraq as early as December 2017 declared a complete victory over the Islamic State (the organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation), bandits still retain combat capacity. Terrorists tend to hide in hard-to-reach regions of the country, where they create their shelters using a convenient natural landscape. ISIL * an organization whose activities are prohibited in the Russian Federation.