Khalil Omar, Judge of the Rusafa Court, informed that the police captured dealers dedicated to supplying the ISIL with drugs, in Ain Al-Tamur, in the southwestern province of Karbala.
During the operation an estimated of 12 million hallucinogenic pills, considered a source of financing for the terrorist group were seized, as per Khalil's statements to the Shafaq News agency.
The drugs had as main destinations parts of southern and central Karbala loyal to ISIL, said the judge, noting that the band was by integrated three terrorists which will be processed for their affiliation to the organization and the trafficking of narcotics.
The Iraqi army also announced that on Tuesday its air force attacked three facilities of the terrorists, dedicated to manufacturing car bombs in different parts of Samarra, in the northern province of Salaheddin, and destroyed 24 vehicles loaded with explosives, in addition to other artifacts.
On the other hand, the state television reported that 14 government troops were killed and another 10 were wounded in a suicide bomb attack on a police station in the northwest of Kirkuk, following a successful antiterrorist operation in Al-Anbar.
The Joint Special Operations Command said it warned residents of Ramadi, the capital of the western boundary of Al-Anbar, to leave the city as soon as possible for safe places in anticipation of the assault that the regular troops and their allies are preparing there.
Fierce fighting is developing in the surroundings of Ramadi after army troops, federal police, Shia volunteers of popular mobilization, and members of Sunni tribes stopped the advance of the ISIL rebels, causing them about 100 fatal casualties, according to Baghdad.
News media reported on Wednesday that the Foreign Minister of Turkey, Feridun Snarla Oglu, arrived last night in Erbil, the capital of the autonomous region of the Iraqi Kurdistan, to conduct talks with Kurdish authorities over oil affairs and combating radical groups.
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