The Iraqi security forces supported by the air force killed 20 militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Northern Babel province.
The infantry operations were conducted in coordination with Air Force Sukhoi fighter jets," Babel Governor General Sadeq Madloul Soltani said on Tuesday.
He noted that the security forces targeted ISIL terrorists in Babel operations from three different directions.
Earlier in the day, the security forces killed 35 ISIL terrorists in Northern Tikrit.
"The Counter-Terrorism Department in cooperation with the air force killed 35 ISIL terrorists and burnt seven of their vehicles in Shurqat district of Northern Tikrit," the army said on Tuesday.
ISIL is a Takfiri extremist group which has its roots in the insurgency against the US-led invasion on Iraq in 2006, and was later developed to a bigger group in Syria in 2012.
The group is known to be responsible for mass murders and extremist acts of violence across Syria and Iraq.
ISIL leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, who was a detainee at US Bucca prison in 2005, has announced himself as the caliph of the Muslim world.
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