BAGHDAD, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Two Islamic State (IS) militants were killed on Wednesday in an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition aircraft in Iraq's northern province of Nineveh, the Iraqi military said.
Acting on intelligence reports from Nineveh's Operations Command, the coalition aircraft attacked an IS tunnel at a desert in al-Baaj area near the border with Syria, the media office of the Joint Operations Command said in a brief statement.
The airstrike resulted in the killing of two extremist IS militants and the destruction of the tunnel, the statement said.
The security situation in Iraq was dramatically improved after Iraqi security forces fully defeated the extremist IS militants across the country late in 2017.
IS remnants, however, have since melted in urban areas or resorted to deserts and rugged areas as safe havens, carrying out frequent guerilla attacks against security forces and civilians.
