3 Senior ISIL Leaders Killed in Iraqi Airstrikes on Western Mosul

Rasa - Three senior ISIL members were killed in Iraqi army airstrikes that targeted their locations in a Western Mosul district, according to the Iraqi military intelligence services.

News ID: 428661

Date: 04 April 2017 - 22:13

RNA - The three were killed when airstrikes pounded al-Tanak district, according to information from the intelligence service, Iraqi News reported.

Those include Yunus al-Jubouri, nom de guerre Abu Hajar al-Arabi, who was commanding suicide fighters, Azab Mamoud Taha, known as Abu Mohamed, who was in charge of drafting minor militants and Sabah al-Mawla, nom the guerre Abu Aws al-Iraqi, who was the chief booby-trapping officer for the so-called “Nineveh State”.

Earlier strikes on Monday at the same district had left four other senior members dead, according to the intelligence service.

Those killed Monday included Mujahid al-Anzi, a Saudi national in charge of the “Zakat bureau”, and Hazem Abu Qays al-Jubouri, a senior ISIL police official.

Iraqi government forces, backed by their allies have been fighting ISIL since October to retake Mosul, the group’s largest stronghold which fell in militants’ hands in 2014.

Iraqi commanders and their advisors have reiterated that ISIL members numbers were diminishing with many senior leaders killed since operations launched to retake the Western region in February.

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