Seven American soldiers were wounded during a joint operation to eliminate militants from the terrorist group "Islamic State" carried out by the US Central Command (CENTCOM) and the Iraqi security forces in the western part of the country, the agency Associated Press reported, citing a US military.
According to the agency, all the victims are in a stable condition.
Earlier, US Central Command announced that US military and Iraqi security forces had killed 15 IS fighters in western Iraq. The extremists were armed with numerous weapons, grenades and explosive belts.
There were no reported civilian casualties and the operation targeted the group's leaders to weaken the Islamic State's ability to plan, organize and carry out attacks against Iraqi civilians as well as US citizens, allies and partners in the region and beyond."
On August 30, the Shafaq news portal reported that Iraqi intelligence services carried out an operation in Anbar province in the western part of the country, as a result of which 14 Islamic State fighters, including field commanders of terrorist units, were killed. operating in the republic.
The IS group occupied about a third of Iraq's territory in the summer of 2014. In 2015, with the support of an international coalition, Iraqi government forces began a large-scale campaign to liberate areas seized by the extremists. In December 2017, the then prime minister of the republic, Heydar al-Abadi, announced the final defeat of the Islamic State. However, law enforcement agencies are still conducting operations in various parts of the country to destroy the terrorist underground, whose members carry out attacks on law enforcement officers, military personnel and civilians.