Daesh second-in-command killed in Iraqi airstrike inside Syria

The militant commander ranked second in the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group has reportedly been killed during an Iraqi airstrike inside the Syrian territory.

Intelligence sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Arabic-language Shafaaq news agency that the aerial attack targeted a group of Daesh terrorists, who were gathering at a building

A top-ranked extremist, identified by the nom de guerre Abu Luqman al-Suri, was killed in the attack. He was the deputy of purported Daesh leader Ibrahim al-Samarrai aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The sources added that Suri was “in charge of recruiting attackers and dispatching them to Iraq to carry out bomb attacks there.”

The development came a day after Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC) spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Rasool stated that Iraqi military aircraft had launched a series of attacks in Syria, killing 36 Daesh militants.

There were six senior leaders among the slain Takfiris.

On December 9, 2017, Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared the end of military operations against the Daesh terrorist group in the Arab country.

“Our forces are in complete control of the Iraqi-Syrian border and I therefore announce the end of the war against Daesh,” Abadi told a conference in Baghdad then.

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