BAGHDAD
The Iraqi army has claimed that 40 Daesh fighters were killed in an operation in Anbar province.
A spokesperson for the Iraqi Interior Ministry – Brigadier General Saad Mean – said on Friday that Iraqi warplanes attacked the extremist militants while they were holding a meeting.
Ramadi city, the capital of Anbar province – Iraq’s biggest governorate – has been under Daesh control for the last two weeks.
The Iraqi army, in cooperation with other militias, started an operation to regain the control of the city on May 26.
Iraq was plunged into a security vacuum in June 2014 when Daesh stormed the northern province of Mosul and declared what it called a caliphate in Iraq and Syria.
