On Tuesday, Iraqi authorities announced that in a raid in the northern mountains, security forces had killed nine Islamic State (IS) group commanders, including the country’s top leader.
Counterterrorism forces “killed nine terrorists, among them the so-called governor of Iraq” for IS, according to a statement from Iraq’s Joint Operations Command, who identified him as Jassim al-Mazrouei Abu Abdel Qader.
Iraqi security expert Fadel Abu Raghif let AFP know that Mazrouei had “took command of the [IS] Iraq territory under a year prior”.
The assertion noticed that the activity in the Hamrin Mountains was completed “with specialized help” and knowledge given by the US-drove alliance.
It likewise said that “huge amounts of weapons” were held onto in the activity, which was “all the while progressing”.
The IS bunch overran enormous wraps of Iraq and adjoining Syria in 2014, broadcasting its “caliphate”.
It was crushed in Iraq in 2017 by Iraqi powers upheld by the global military alliance, and in 2019 lost the last region it held in Syria to US-supported Kurdish powers, however leftovers of the gathering stay dynamic in Iraq and keep on sending off irregular assaults.
Using the Arabic acronym for IS, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani’s office issued a statement announcing “the killing of the so-called governor of Iraq and eight senior leaders of the terrorist Daesh organization.”
Sudani said the activity designated IS hideaways in the Hamrin Mountains, promising to “seek after … and wipe out” assailants any place they might be in Iraq.
Iraqi security powers, upheld by the US-drove alliance, have done various strikes on thought IS refuges.
The US military declared on Friday that “accuracy air strikes” led by Iraqi powers before this month had killed a senior IS pioneer and three different aggressors.
15 IS group members were killed in a joint US and Iraqi operation at the end of August in the western desert of Iraq.
A report by Joined Countries specialists distributed in July assessed there were around 1,500 to 3,000 jihadists staying in Iraq and Syria.
The coalition, which Washington and Baghdad announced last month will end its decade-long military mission in Iraq within a year, includes approximately 2,500 US troops in Iraq and 900 in Syria.
