ICTS kills three terrorists in Kirkuk

Baghdad-INA
 Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service (ICTS) announced on Tuesday the killing of three terrorists in Kirkuk.

The spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Major General Yahya Rasoul, said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that “according to the directives of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, and under the supervision of the head of the Counter-Terrorism Service, Lieutenant General Karim Al-Tamimi, the heroes of the Counter-Terrorism Service continue their qualitative operations to pursue... the remnants of ISIS terrorist gangs."

The statement explained, "A qualitative operation was carried out and was characterized by high professionalism in the Zaghitoun Valley within Kirkuk Governorate, resulting in the killing of 3 terrorists, including the so-called commander of the Riyadh boycott and the last economist of this boycott of the ISIS terrorist gangs."

It added, "This operation came with the support of army aviation, which eliminated the first terrorist as for the second criminal, he was wearing an explosive belt after surrounding him, he blew himself up after a clash with him, while the third terrorist was surrounded in one of the abandoned houses, and he was carrying a group of grenades he was also clashed with and killed."