An Aero L-159 ALCA jet flies at a military base in Balad, north of Baghdad on November 5, 2015. (Reuters photo)
The Iraqi Air Force’s juets carried out 19 sorties in Western Iraq, killing 46 militants.
The terrorists’ military positions were targeted in Kharshabat, Kanash, Tal Aswad, Kani Shirin, Albu Shahab, Al-Karama, al-Fahilat and Beiji.
Pro-government sources also reports that the Iraqi air force destroyed 14 mortar and missile launch-pads in Anbar province, killing at least 73 ISIL terrorists.
Yesterday, the Iraqi army and allied militia (Hashd al-Shaabi) seized back a strategic village of Karabuk near the city of Mosul.