Iraqi PMUs Repel Daesh Attack on Samarra

By Staff, Agencies

The Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units [PMU], known in Arabic as Hashd al-Shaabi, announced they had fought off an attack by Daesh [the Arabic acronym for ‘ISIS/ISIL’ terrorist group] against an area south of the Iraqi city of Samarra.

In a statement on Friday, the PMUs said Daesh elements were trying to infiltrate through Tal al-Zahab region, south of Samarra, and block a strategic road to the city of al-Balad and the Shrine of Sayyed Muhammad bin Imam Hadi.

However, it added, the terrorists were detected with the use of thermal cameras, and the PMU forces repelled their offensive.

Earlier this month, the Iraqi resistance group deployed massive forces in Diyala province near the Iranian border to counter Daesh terrorists in joint operations with the Iraqi army.

The move came after Daesh terrorists attacked an important oil-rich area east of the province on the Iraqi-Iranian border.

Several members of the popular forces were martyred and wounded in the terrorist attack on the city of Diyala.

It was the biggest deployment of PMU in the region since 2003 to counter the threat of Daesh.

In another attack this month, at least seven fighters from the Hashd were martyred and several others sustained injuries when a massive bomb explosion struck their convoy in Iraq’s north-central province of Salahuddin.

There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attack, but such assaults bear the hallmark of the mentioned terror outfit.