Iraq: Armed Forces Kill Senior ISIS Commander (Photos)

Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi announced, on Thursday the killing of ISIS’s commander Abu Yaser Al-Issawi.

“We promised and fulfilled. I gave my word to pursue Daesh (ISIS) terrorists, we gave them a thundering response,” Al-Kadhimi announced on Twitter. “Our heroic armed forces have eliminated Daesh commander Abu Yaser Al-Issawi as part of an intelligence-led operation.”

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Last week, ISIS claimed responsibility for Baghdad’s twin suicide attack, that killed at least 32 people, and wounded more than 110 others.

ISIS confessed that two of its men blew themselves up in Tayaran Square in the center of Baghdad, according to a statement posted on the group’s Telegram communications channel.

“One (bomber) came, fell to the ground and started complaining ‘my stomach is hurting’ and he pressed the detonator in his hand,” a street vendor said. “ It exploded immediately. People were torn to pieces.”

“ISIS terrorist groups might be standing behind the attacks,” Civil Defence chief Major General Kadhim Salman told reporters.

Al-Kadhimi held an urgent meeting with top security officials in order to discuss the horrific attacks, according to a statement, issued by the premier’s office.