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Three Isis leaders killed in US-led air strikes in Iraq
Source: Reuters
Three Isis leaders killed in US-led air strikes in Iraq
Reuters in Washington
theguardian.com, Thursday 18 December 2014 20.46 GMT
US-led air strikes against the Islamic State (Isis) in Iraq have killed three of the militant group’s top leaders but not senior commander Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, US officials said on Thursday.
Among those killed was Abd al Basit, whom the officials described as the group’s military “emir”, and Haji Mutazz, a deputy to Baghdadi. Those strikes took place between 3 December and 9 December, they said.
They also confirmed last month’s killing of Radwan Taleb al-Hamdouni, whom local medical sources had described to Reuters at the time as the radical militant group’s leader in the northern city of Mosul.
News of the killings, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, came the same day the top US commander of coalition efforts against Isis, Lieutenant General James Terry, hailed the impact of four months of air strikes in Iraq.
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Reuters in Washington
theguardian.com, Thursday 18 December 2014 20.46 GMT
US-led air strikes against the Islamic State (Isis) in Iraq have killed three of the militant group’s top leaders but not senior commander Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, US officials said on Thursday.
Among those killed was Abd al Basit, whom the officials described as the group’s military “emir”, and Haji Mutazz, a deputy to Baghdadi. Those strikes took place between 3 December and 9 December, they said.
They also confirmed last month’s killing of Radwan Taleb al-Hamdouni, whom local medical sources had described to Reuters at the time as the radical militant group’s leader in the northern city of Mosul.
News of the killings, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, came the same day the top US commander of coalition efforts against Isis, Lieutenant General James Terry, hailed the impact of four months of air strikes in Iraq.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/18/three-isis-leaders-killed-us-air-strikes-iraq
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