Baghdad, March 5 (IANS) Eight Islamic State (IS) militants have been killed in an international coalition airstrike in Iraq, officials said.
In coordination with Iraq's joint operations command, US-led coalition fighter jets pounded an IS hideout in the desert of Kubeisa in Anbar province, Iraq's Ministry of Defence said in a statement on Monday.
According to the statement, a total of eight IS militants were killed in the airstrike and their hideout was destroyed, along with destroying explosive belts and homemade bombs, Xinhua news agency reported.
The US-led international coalition was formed to support the Iraqi forces in its war against the extremist militant group after the latter took control of large swathes of territories in northern and western Iraq in June 2014.
(This story has not been edited by Social News XYZ staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
About Gopi
Gopi Adusumilli is a Programmer. He is the editor of SocialNews.XYZ and President of AGK Fire Inc.
He enjoys designing websites, developing mobile applications and publishing news articles on current events from various authenticated news sources.
When it comes to writing he likes to write about current world politics and Indian Movies. His future plans include developing SocialNews.XYZ into a News website that has no bias or judgment towards any.
He can be reached at gopi@socialnews.xyz