Shafaq News- Al-Anbar
Iraqi police discovered on Friday 480 artillery shells stored in six ammunition boxes during a search operation in the desert west of Ramadi in Al-Anbar province.
Al-Anbar police said the cache, consisting of 57-mm artillery rounds believed to date back to ISIS's occupation of the area, was found in al-Tash desert and was secured for disposal in accordance with security procedures.
In June, one person was killed, and four others were wounded when a landmine believed to have been left behind by the group exploded in the province.
Al-Anbar, a vast desert province bordering Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, remains heavily contaminated with munitions left from years of conflict. Civil Defense teams in the province removed 1,593 unexploded munitions in the first half of 2026, and the Iraqi Army's Field Engineering Battalion destroyed 897 explosive remnants under approved procedures.