An Iraqi air strike in Syria on April 19 has killed 36 ISIS militants, including some of the group's leaders in Syria, an Iraqi military spokesman said on Sunday.
Iraqi warplanes had attacked an ISIS explosives factory and other positions inside Syria on Thursday, a rare air assault across the border.
A video of the operation showed two F-16 fighter jets destroying a house near the town of Hajin in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, about 50 kilometers from the Iraqi border.
"The Iraqi air raids, carried out by several F-16s in Syria on April 19, targeted ISIS terrorists who represented a danger to Iraq," said General Yahya Rasool, spokesman for the Joint Operations Command (JOC), which coordinates the fight against ISIS in Iraq.
"According to our information, the raids took place while there was a meeting of terrorist leaders and it achieved its goal with the death of 36 of them," he said.
The US-led coalition battling ISIS confirmed the raid.
