ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) on Sunday killed three alleged members of the Islamic State (ISIS) in clashes in the Tarmiyah district north of Baghdad, a security source told The New Region.

“Three members of the terrorist ISIS gangs were killed in armed clashes with the forces of the North Baghdad Brigade…in the Tarmiyah district, north of Baghdad,” the source said.

A video circulating on social media shows members of the PMF at the site of the clash, with one PMF fighter carrying the deceased body of what they say is an ISIS member who was killed during the confrontations. 

Iraqi forces to this day carry out operations against remnants of the Islamic State on a regular basis, despite the Iraqi government repeatedly claiming that ISIS no longer poses a threat to the country’s national security. 

Despite being territorially defeated in 2017, ISIS militants continue to pose a security threat in Iraq through sporadic hit-and-run operations and attacks on remote areas. Iraqi forces have intensified their efforts to eliminate these remnants.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani, in mid-March, announced the killing of the ISIS Deputy Caliph and so-called “Wali of Iraq and Syria,” while  four  other suspects in Salahaddin were arrested in April, including one of the group's top leaders in the province, the Iraqi Federal Intelligence and Investigation Agency announced. 

Iraqi security forces arrested over 500 terror suspects in 2024, according to data from the Iraqi National Security Service.