Senior terrorist commander killed in Iraq's Anbar province: Pentagon

A top commander of the ISIL terrorist group has reportedly been killed in Iraq as government forces are pushing ahead with their battle against the Takfiris, retaking more areas from them.

Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said that Abu Wahib, also known as Shakir Wahib, and three other Daesh (ISIL) elements were killed when their vehicle was struck in a US airstrike in Iraq's Anbar province on May 6.

A former member of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Wahib had appeared in Daesh execution videos, Cook said, adding that he was killed near the town of Rutbah.

Abu Wahib was captured by US forces in Iraq in 2006 and sentenced to death but escaped prison in 2012. He gained notoriety the following year for killing a number of Syrian truck drivers travelling in Iraq.

In another development on Monday, Iraqi forces and volunteer fighters liberated the northern village of Kabrouk in Nineveh province from ISIL, as they try to close in on the terrorist-held city of Mosul.

"In a swift operation, our units took the groups of the terrorist organization Daesh by surprise and entered the village," the Nineveh Operations Command said in a statement.

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