The Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported the spokesman for joint operations Brigadier General, Yahya Rasool, said "we are continuing these military operations to eradicate the Takfiri gangs for the fifth day in a row," he also noted that "the first phase of the operation have so far cleared more than 80 villages, in the vicinity of Kirkuk".

He added that "the joint military forces advanced in the operations of clearing the villages from wanted persons." In addition to the confiscation of quantities of weapons, ammunition, detonation of explosive devices, car bombs and destruction of tunnels used by ISIS."