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For years after dislodging the militants from their self-declared caliphate throughout Iraq and Syria, U.S. forces have continued preventing the Islamic State group, although the casualties from Friday’s raid had been larger than others within the time since.
The U.S. army’s Central Command alleged the militants had been armed with “quite a few weapons, grenades, and explosive ‘suicide’ belts” throughout the assault, which Iraqi forces stated occurred within the nation’s the Anbar Desert.
“This operation focused ISIS leaders to disrupt and degrade ISIS’ capability to plan, set up, and conduct assaults towards Iraqi civilians, in addition to U.S. residents, allies, and companions all through the area and past,” Central Command stated, utilizing an acronym for the militant group. “Iraqi Security Forces proceed to additional exploit the areas raided.”
It added: “There is not any indication of civilian casualties.”
An Iraqi army assertion stated “airstrikes focused the hideouts, adopted by an airborne operation.”
At its peak, the Islamic State group dominated an space half the scale of the United Kingdom the place it tried to implement its excessive interpretation of Islam, which included assaults on non secular minority teams and harsh punishment of Muslims deemed to be apostates.
A coalition of greater than 80 international locations, led by the United States, was fashioned to battle the group, which misplaced its maintain on the territory it managed in Iraq and 2017 and in Syria in 2019. However, the militants have continued to function within the Anbar Desert in Iraq and Syria, whereas claiming assaults carried out by others elsewhere on the earth. The Islamic State’s department in Afghanistan is thought to hold out intensely bloody assaults.
