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Mazhar al-Azawi said, \u201cA joint force made up of the Iraqi army, police and al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) launched a wide-scale military operation, tracking down Daesh remnants in the eastern part of Diyala.\u201d\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cThe clampdown comes as part of the Tigris Operations Command\u2019s strategy to maintain Diyala\u2019s security and reassure its residents,\u201d Azawi said, stressing that the operation was launched to hunt for Daesh cells and destroy all their strongholds in the governorate.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>In January 2016, Iraqi forces announced liberation of Diyala province from Daesh terrorists who proclaimed an \u201cIslamic Caliphate\u201d in Iraq and Syria in 2014.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>The province has seen months of fighting between Iraqi troops and Daesh militants especially in the Jalawla and Saadiyah areas in the province\u2019s north and areas near the town of Muqdadiyah.\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>Iraq declared the collapse of Daesh\u2019s self-proclaimed caliphate in November 2016 with the recapture of Rawa, a city on Anbar\u2019s western borders with Syria, which was the group\u2019s last bastion in Iraq.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iraqi army on Sunday launched a wide-scale military operation, targeting remnants of the Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group in Diyala governorate, a senior military commander was quoted as saying. \u00a0 The Iraqi army on Sunday launched a wide-scale military operation, targeting remnants of the Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group in Diyala governorate, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[542,1091,488,33,85],"class_list":["post-5398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islam","tag-army","tag-diyala","tag-group","tag-iraq","tag-isis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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