The commander of the Burraq forces of thePopular MobilizationUnits, Wasiq Fartousi, told the Arabic-language al-Sumaria satellite television network that his forces together with Iraqi security personnel and tribal fighters managed to seize complete control of the Albu-Hayat area in Haditha District,160 kilometers (99 miles) west of the provincial capital, Ramadi, on Wednesday.
They killed 115 Daesh terrorists during the operation.Fartousi added that Arab nationals as well as citizens of a number of Western countries were among the slain Takfiris.
Meanwhile, Daesh terrorists have reportedly executed a high-profile Iraqi physicist in the countrys troubled northern province of Nineveh over his refusal to build biological and chemical weapons for the militants.
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This file photo shows Daesh militants in an undisclosed location in Iraq.[/caption]An informed provincial source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Daesh Takfiris killed the president of the Physics Department at the Faculty of Science of the University of Mosulin the northern Iraqi city, which islocated some 400kilometers (250miles) north ofthe capital, Baghdad, on Wednesday evening.
The source added that the execution of the physicist, whose name has not been publishedyet,took place in a public square in Mosul in front of a large number of onlookers.
In October 2014, the US military saidit hadevidence showing that Daesh militants in Iraq and Syria were seeking biological weapons.
Intelligence has discovered that ISIS (Daesh) intends to pursue biological agents and also is trying to figure out how to weaponize bubonic plague through the use of infected animals, Brigadier General Maria Gervais, the head of the US Armys Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear School, said at the time.
By Press TV
