The Joint Operations Command announced: "Iraqi aircraft destroyed a terrorist den in Wadi Zgheiton in Kirkuk and killed five terrorists." It stated in a statement that: "In a qualitative operation based on accurate information from the heroes in the Military Intelligence Directorate, and intensive follow-up that continued for days by the targeting cell in the Joint Operations Command, the Air Falcons carried out, by means of F-16 aircraft, a successful and accurate air strike during which they targeted a terrorist den in Wadi Zgheiton within the Kirkuk Operations Command sector, inside which was a detachment consisting of (5) ISIS terrorist elements, and the den was turned into rubble, and various weapons and equipment were destroyed." Source: National Iraqi News Agency