High-profile Iraqi police Cmdr. killed in Daesh attack.

Daesh terrorists have killed a distinguished security official in Iraq’s north-central province of Salahuddin as army troopers, backed by the Popular Mobilization Forces, are trying to flush the last remnants of the extremist outfit out of the crisis-hit country.

Iraqi Interior Minister Yassin al-Yasiri told the official Iraqi News Agency on Tuesday that Commander of the Fourth Division of the Federal Police, Major General Ali al-Lami, had been killed in an attack by a group of Daesh terrorists.

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This is while the Iraqi news agency reported that Lami lost his life while combating the last remnants of the Daesh terror group in the city of Samarra, located 125 kilometers (78 miles) north of the capital Baghdad.

An unnamed security source said that “the Commander of the Fourth Division of the Federal Police, Major General Ali al-Lami, a colonel and four other aides were killed when Daesh (terrorists) targeted their boat during a reconnaissance tour on the Tigris River in Samarra. The assault also resulted in the injury of other associates.”

On September 21, Iraqi pro-government Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) announced the conclusion of a military campaign against the sleeper cells of the Daesh terrorist group in the central parts of the country as well as a sector of the vast western desert leading to the border with Saudi Arabia.

The media bureau of the volunteer forces, better known by the Hashd al-Sha’abi, announced in a statement that the fifth phase of the Will of Victory operation, which had started on September 16, was wrapped up as different units and forces of Iraqi military forces cleared the remote territory between the provinces of Karbala, Najaf, and Anbar.

The operation was jointly carried out by various Iraqi forces, including al-Jazira Operation Command, federal police, the army, the PMU, counter-terrorism units, and the air force.