SULAIMANI (ESTA) — A senior Islamic State (ISIS) member was killed in an airstrike in Anbar province, Iraq’s military said on Thursday.
Iraq’s security media cell said the country’s warplanes bombed a vehicle in the desert areas of Rutba, west of Iraq.
ISIS wali (governor) of Anbar, Musana Khizr Kamil known as Abu Maluka, was killed along with one of his aides, it said in a statement.
ISIS controlled roughly a third of Iraq between 2014 and 2017. Iraqi forces and Kurdish troops backed by U.S.-led Coalition forces as well as Iran-backed Shia militias defeated the militant group in 2017, but its members still roam areas of northern Iraq and northeastern Syria.
