Coalition air raids blast ISIS positions west of Mosul

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Airstrikes have led to the deaths of a number of Islamic State militants and the destruction of a weapons depot on the Dijla front west of Mosul, a Peshmerga official told Rudaw on Monday.
 
“In the aftermath of the airstrike on an ISIS weapons depot in the village of Ashui near the Kaske intersection on the Dijla front, light and heavy weapons inside the depot were destroyed and the militants inside it were all incinerated,” Brigadier General Dilshad Maulood, a media officer of the Peshmerga Zeravani command, told Rudaw.

In an earlier attack on ISIS in the village of Tashta near the town of Kaske on the Dijla front, Kurdish forces and coalition warplanes bombed a weapons base of the militants’ west of of Mosul, Maulood told Rudaw Sunday.