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| BAGHDAD:
Turkish troops stationed in neighbouring Iraq killed 17 Daesh militants
during a second attack by the militant group in less than a month,
state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Friday.
Turkey’s Bashiqa camp near the Iraqi city of Mosul, which Daesh has
controlled since June 2014, came under assault late on Thursday night,
Anadolu said. No Turkish soldier was hurt during ensuing clashes. “There was an exchange of fire around the Bashiqa camp and Daesh launched an attack which was repelled,” a Turkish government source said. Separately, the US-led coalition launched 23 air strikes against Daesh in Iraq and three in Syria on Thursday, the task force leading the operation said in a statement. The coalition said 22 strikes in Iraq were coordinated with that nation’s government against Daesh targets, and one strike was against inoperable coalition equipment. The strikes included seven in the Daesh stronghold of Mosul and six in Ramadi, where Iraqi troops drove out most of the militants last week after a hard-fought offensive, the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement on Friday. In Mosul, the strikes destroyed four Daesh tactical units, six fighting positions, four assembly areas, a bunker and a tunnel. In Ramadi, they destroyed 16 fighting positions, 13 heavy machine guns and a dozen improvised explosive devices and denied militants access to terrain, the coalition said. Other strikes in Iraq hit near Al Qaim, Sinjar, Haditha, Irbil, Kisik, Qayyarah and Sultan Abdallah, it said. The coalition said air strikes in Syria included two near Ayn Isa, where they destroyed three fighting positions and suppressed a third, and near Manbij, where a strike destroyed three staging areas. Meanwhile, Daesh spokesman Abu Muhammad Al Adnani has reportedly been wounded in an air strike in Iraq’s western province of Anbar, a military statement said on Thursday. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. “There are confirmed reports that the so-called terrorist Abu Muhammad Al Adnani the spokesman of the Daesh terrorists was wounded in an air strike in the region of Barwana,” the military statement said. Adnani lost “a large amount of blood” in the attack a few days ago, before being moved to the northern city of Mosul, Daesh’s capital in Iraq, the statement added. More than 100 Daesh fighters were killed in and around Barwana this week by air strikes aimed at helping the Iraqi army repel militant offensives near the city of Haditha, according to the US-led coalition. Adnani is a Syrian from Idlib who pledged allegiance to Daesh’s predecessor Al Qaeda more than a decade ago and was once imprisoned by US forces in Iraq, according to the Brookings Institution. William McCants, a Brookings scholar who is author of the book “The Daesh Apocalypse,” said if true, Adnani’s wounding could be a significant setback for Daesh. “If he’s incapacitated, Baghdadi has lost a very trusted adviser,” he said by phone, referring to Daesh leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi. “His name has been floated as a possible successor and he’s an effective propagandist.” US Army Colonel Steve Warren, spokesman for the coalition bombing Daesh in Iraq and Syria, could not confirm the Iraqi military report but said Adnani had not been targeted by a coalition air strike. Adanani has been the chief propagandist for militant group since he declared in a June 2014 statement that it was establishing a modern-day caliphate spanning large swaths of territory it had seized in Iraq and neighbouring Syria. |
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