JOC announces results of Operation Lion's Leap in Anbar

INA-  Baghdad


The Joint Operations Command- JOC declared on Friday the results of Operation Lion's Leap in the Anbar desert.  
 
JOC said in a statement obtained  by the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "Based on the directives of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Muhammad Shia Al-Sudani, and in a series of security meetings to hunt down the defeated terrorist ISIS leaders, and in the light of accurate intelligence information from the Iraqi National Intelligence Service, with logistical support and exchange of intelligence information by the advisers of the International Coalition, and in coordination with the Operations Command, Operation Lion's Leap was launched at dawn on Thursday, August 29, 2024, in the Anbar desert, followed by three other operations targeting dens and hideouts of Daesh."
 
The statement further said that "all operations resulted in important results, killing most of the leaders of ISIS terrorist gangs, seizing weapons, ammunition, logistical and technical materials, computers, phones and criminal scenes, and more than (10) explosive belts, which were used by the leaders of ISIS terrorists."