Iraq continued its fight against the so-called Islamic State (IS) in an extensive effort to rid rural areas in the Saladin and Diyala provinces of the a continued low-level insurgency by the militants. Soldiers and bomb disposal teams swept Al-Udhaim – an area close to Saladin in Diyala, the Shafaq News Agency on Sunday cited a security insider as saying. The authorities “torched the dense jungles to hinder [IS] from sheltering inside” and took out locations the group’s members kept to conceal themselves in. Emergency police swept agricultural sites and rural areas near the river Tigris in Sal…