Iraqi Prime Minister Announces Elimination of ISIS* Leader and Top Commanders
20241022
BAGHDAD (Sputnik) - The leader of the Islamic State* terrorist group in Iraq and eight other high-ranking commanders haven been eliminated, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al Sudani said on Tuesday.
"I congratulate our esteemed people on the elimination of the so-called 'Emir of Iraq' of the terrorist organization ISIS and eight of its high-ranking commanders as a result of a unique heroic operation by the counter-terrorism National Security Service, as well as as a result of joint operations targeting the terrorists' holes where they were hiding in the mountains," the prime minister said in a statement.
*A terrorist group outlawed in Russia and many other countries.
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