On September 21, local time, according to the Security Media Center under the Joint Operation Command of Iraq, two Iraqi counter-terrorism officers were killed while carrying out counter-terrorism missions in the western province of Anbar on the same day, and a local counter-terrorism officer was wounded.

The statement said that the Iraqi counter-terrorism agency and the Intelligence and counter-terrorism department of the province of Anbar conducted a joint operation on 21 on the ground search of a hiding place of Islamic State militants, which was hit by the Iraqi air force a few days ago, during which an explosive device was detonated, resulting in two deaths and one injury.

In December 2017, the Iraqi government announced a victory over the Islamic State group. Since then, the remaining forces of the Islamic State mainly flocked to remote rural areas of Iraq and occasionally launched attacks.