BAGHDAD, July 20 (NNN-NINA) – Four Daesh militants and two paramilitary Hashd Shaabi members were killed on Sunday, in two attacks in the Iraqi province of Salahudin, Hashd Shaabi, said.
Paramilitary Saraya al-Salam militia, affiliated with Hashd Shaabi forces, killed four Daesh militants in the northeast of the city of Samarra, some 120 km north of Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, a Hashd Shaabi statement said.
As a militia affiliated with the Shiite cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, Saraya al-Salam, or Peace Companies, is deployed in Samarra, to protect the Shitte shrines of the two imams Ali al-Hadi and Hassan al-Askari.
Also in Salahudin Province, a roadside bomb exploded on a Hashd Shaabi vehicle, during an anti-Daesh operation in the al-Jazira area in the western part of the province, the Hashd Shaabi said, in a separate statement.
The explosion destroyed the vehicle and resulted in the killing of two Hashd Shaabi members and the wounding of four others aboard, the statement said.
The incidents took place as the extremist militants intensified their attacks on the security forces, including Hashd Shaabi forces, and civilians in the formerly Daesh-controlled Sunni provinces, resulting in the killing and the wounding of dozens.
