(Reuters) — Iraq said on Sunday (October 11), its air force had targeted and destroyed positions of the Islamic State in the western Sunni heartland of Anbar.
A statement released by the Ministry of Defence said its aircraft conducted three successful airstrikes on IS targets, two of them in Dijla operation sectors and the third one in al-Jazeera wa al-Badiya area, destroying IS militants positions, inflicting heavy material losses and killing IS militants.
The Ministry also released a video of airstrikes by coalition forces against Islamic State positions near Ramadi, the provincial capital of Anbar province and south of the oil city of Kirkuk.
Coalition forces struck five targets of the Islamic State in Anbar province, five of them in Ramadi city and one in the town of Hit, while it carried out one airstrike south of the city of Kirkuk, the statement said.
An airstrike hit a gathering of Islamic State members in a town in western Iraq on Sunday and killed several leaders but the group’s top man, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was not among them, hospital sources and residents said.
Earlier, Iraq’s military said that an airstrike had targeted a convoy of Islamic State leaders as they were about to head into a meeting in a town near the Syrian border.
