Iraqi army advances in fight against IS

Iraq’s Joint Operation Committee announced on Monday that Infantry Division 15, backed by helicopters and warplanes killed 65 gunmen and 15 suicide bombers and destroyed 4 strongholds of the IS in a village, 11 km north of Tal Afar. The same day, a spokesperson for the Iraqi Prime Minister’s Communications Office said government forces liberated 90% of the territory occupied by the terrorists. The Iraqi army has deployed more troops to the North to prepare for another operation to wipe out further militants.