Government Advisor: ISIS's capabilities could be eliminated thanks to Operation Lion’s Leap

INA-  BAGHDAD


The advisor to Prime Minister Hussein Allawi stated on Friday that Operation Lion's Leap provided a way to stop the capabilities of ISIS terrorist gangs in desert regions, and that the joint operations keep an eye on all threats and security risks that aim to impede the nation's development and reconstruction. 

"This strategic operation has collected strategic information over many months from the intelligence services, foremost of which are the National Intelligence Service, the Counter-Terrorism Service, and the Intelligence Cell in the Joint Operations Command," Allawi said in a statement to the Iraqi News Agency (INA) regarding Operation Lions Jump. He added that "as a result, the operation was elaborate and aimed at killing important senior leaders in ISIS terrorist gangs."

"This work aims to strengthen the work of the Iraqi government in paving the path of development and the movement of reconstruction, and an important signal by the Joint Operations Command that it will monitor all threats and security risks that try to disrupt development and reconstruction in the country," he continued. "This qualitative operation is the second of its kind after several months of the major operation that was parallel to it and the participation of the same units."

It is worth mentioning that 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."