Daesh 'grand mufti' slain in Iraqi army’s missile strikes

The highest so-called official of religious law of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group has been killed in a missile attack carried out by the Iraqi Air Force military aircraft in Mosul as government forces, backed by allied fighters from Popular Mobilization Units, are battling to retake the country’s second largest city from the extremists.

According to Press TV, Commander of Federal Police Forces Lieutenant General Raed Shaker Jawdat said on Friday that Abdullah Younis al-Badrani, better known by the nom de guerre Abu Ayoub al-Attar, and two of his close aides were killed as security forces lobbed a barrage of missiles at a terrorist position in western Mosul.

Jawdat identified one of the slain aides as Abdulqader Mahmoud al-Hamdouni al-Saji, noting that he was a member of the so-called Daesh Oversight Council for Militant Bases.

The high-ranking Iraqi security official further noted that federal police forces had fired a number of missiles into Daesh General Security Directorate building, and destroyed it.

Iraqi forces also destroyed an anti-aircraft gun belonging to Daesh Takfiris as they struck terrorist-held al-Zanjili school in the western flank of Mosul.

The developments came a day after commander of Nineveh Liberation Operation, Lieutenant General Abdul Amir Yarallah, announced that soldiers from the 9th Armored Division had reclaimed the village of Halila and established control over an entrance into western Mosul.

The media bureau of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC) also stated on Wednesday that Iraqi government forces had retaken the villages of Shawitah, Tal al-Asfour and al-Sabouniyah from Daesh terrorists.

The statement added that Iraqi forces hoisted the national flag over several buildings in the liberated villages.

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