On Saturday, U.S.-led coalition airstrike killed the commander of the ISIS terrorist group in Iraq.
In a statement, Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve spokesman Col. Wayne Marotto, said that the coalition aircraft were supporting an Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service raid near Kirkuk, which killed the leader “Abu Yasir” and 10 other ISIS members.
Earlier today, the Security Media Cell in Iraq announced killing the military official of the terrorist organization "ISIS" in the desert, west of the Rutba district, in the west of the country.
"Our heroic security forces continue to pursue terrorist elements in various regions. A force from the Iraqi army's 1st pision intelligence regiment killed two terrorists, one of whom was the ISIS military official in the desert west of the district of Rutba.
They also destroyed a terrorist den in the Faydat al-Ghuzlan area, south of the Rutba district, deep in the desert."
“The Coalition will continue to remove key leaders from the battlefield and degrade the terrorist organization. Terrorists-you will never live in peace- you will be pursued to the ends of the earth,” tweeted Marotto.
The strike comes about one week after ISIS claimed a suicide bombing attack in Baghdad, killing at least 32 people.
The group has continued to operate mostly underground in both Iraq and Syria after the coalition and partner forces eliminated ISIS’s physical caliphate in 2019 and killed its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in an October 2019 raid by U.S. forces.
In November 2020, the U.S.-led coalition conducted 14 airstrikes consisting of 34 total engagements in Iraq and Syria, OIR announced in early January. This total is much smaller than the height of coalition operations before the caliphate ended, but was a slight increase from the previous month.
In the first month of 2021, partner forces in Iraq and Syria had conducted 82 operations against ISIS, “preventing 63 terrorists from committing acts of terror,” OIR announced on Jan. 29.
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