Iraqi forces foil IS attack southern Mosul

Iraqi forces killed, on Sunday, 35 terrorists, in addition to destroying a cache of weapons and two hideouts, west of Anbar, while the federal police forces and the Iraqi army aircraft foiled, on Sunday, an attack by a number of suicide bombers after they managed to sneak into a liberated village south of Mosul.
 
An official security source said that Iraqi forces, in al-Areej region, north of Hamam al-Alil, confronted an attack by four suicide bombers.
 
Lt. Gen. Shaker Jawdat, Federal Police chief, said in statements, on Sunday, that troops in al-Areej region, north of Hamam al-Alil confronted an attack by IS militants against our units there. "Four suicide bombers were killed, while the rest, who fled toward villages and hills, are still being followed," he added.
 
 
In the same context, the War Media Cell said in a statement that Jazeera and Anbar Operations Commands started to search the areas of Haditha Warehouses and Wadi Houran, southwest of Kabisa. The operation resulted in the killing of 14 terrorists of the Islamic State, the statement added. Also, an international coalition air strike destroyed two hideouts and killed 21 terrorists in Rawa District.

The Security Council of the Kurdistan region said that its forces shelled a house of IS leader, Hassan Saud Khalil Khalife Jubouri, known as "Abu Talut", in the neighborhood of Rifaa'i in the right side of Mosul.
 
For his part, the director of Kanaan district, Mahdi Abdulkarim al-Shammari said that the southern areas of Kanaan have recently witnessed several security breaches. Since the beginning of this year, the incident reached four incidents between the killing and targeting of the security points stationed in the district.
 
Al-Shammari said that the incidents that have been taking place in the area since the time of al-Qaeda in 2006-2007, so far, come from one direction, the southern trend, noting that there is a secret road used by the elements of al-Qaeda previously, and currently used by IS elements.

IS organization has been launched during the past months several extremist attacks on security points stationed in the border areas of Diyala province.
 
 In the other context, a member of Iraqi National Alliance and the Supreme Islamic Council, Fadi al-Shammari called, on Sunday, the President of Kurdistan region and his parliamentary bloc in Baghdad, to make an official apology because of abuses by a deputy from the Kurdistan Democratic Party, on the National Alliance and its head, Ammar al-Hakim.

"We affirm our support for the unity of Iraq, our pride in the Arab Kurdish brotherhood, and that the Kurds are an integral part of the beautiful Iraqi diversity, and we strive to preserve this component and the rest of the spectrum to serve the national interest," he said.