PM:06:07:28/01/2022
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SULAIMANI — Major General Saad Maan, the head of Iraq’s
Security Media Cell, said the Islamic State (ISIS) does not have the ability to
exist in large groups, Iraqi state media said on Thursday (January 27).
Maan said ISIS was prevented from gathering in greater
numbers due to the effectiveness of efforts against the militant group, adding,
"Air strikes are being directed against its members wherever they gather.”
"Some are trying to make ISIS terrorist gangs bigger than
their size,” Maan told Iraqi News Agency (INA). "In fact, the current war is a
single guerrilla war here and there.”
Maan explained there was an Islamic State presence in
Khanukah, Mutaibija and Jallab in Salahadin governorate, the Qarachokh
Mountains, Zaghitun and Wadi al-Shay in Kirkuk governorate, Hawi al-Azhim in
Diyala and in the area south of Makhmur.
He noted, according to INA, that military operations have
been carried out since last Sunday in the governorates of Diyala and Salahadin,
including in Samarra.
Maan also stated operations were conducted by units of the
Iraqi military, Popular Mobilization Forces (Hashd al-Shaabi), intelligence
agencies in the Ministry of the Interior, the Iraqi Air Force and with the
cooperation of the public.