ERBIL, Kurdistan Region- At least eight Islamic State (ISIS) militants were killed during an attack by Iraqi warplanes in Ramadi, according to a statement released Sunday by the media war office of the joint operation.
“Iraqi warplanes targeted ISIS strongholds in Ramadi and managed to kill eight militants and destroy a vehicle and a barrel bomb,” said the statement.
The operation was carried out in the Tameem district of western Ramadi in Anbar province.
The statement added that warplanes blasted ISIS in eastern Fallujah, destroying a vehicle and killing some ISIS militants inside it.
ISIS seized Ramadi on May 17, 2015 and has controlled most of Anbar—the largest province in Iraq— since its lightning campaign across Iraq in 2014.
Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi has in recent weeks claimed that Iraqi joint forces have made massive advances from all directions around the ISIS-held city of Ramadi in Anbar province, and that the provincial capital would soon be liberated from the extremist group.
Some 10,000 Iraqi soldiers, policemen and militants of the Shiite militia Hashd al-Shaabi and tribal forces have been fighting to clear the Anbar province from ISIS since June, but they have not managed to make any significant advances in ISIS-held areas.
