Shafaq News- Al-Anbar
Iraqi security forces discovered a tunnel network stockedwith explosives and improvised explosive devices in the Al-Anbar desert, thePopular Mobilization Forces (PMF) media directorate announced Monday.
The PMF's 57th Brigade located the militant hideout duringdesert operations, after which Army engineers from the 7th Division demolishedthe tunnels and neutralized the explosives.
Al-Anbar, Iraq's largest province and a vast desert expansebordering Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, was between 2014 and 2017 theheartland of ISIS's Iraqi caliphate and remains one of the country's mostactive theaters for counterterrorism operations.
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