US Eliminates ISIS Commander in Iraq | Israel Today

A U.S. military spokeswoman in Iraq confirmed that an ISIS commander had been killed in a U.S. bombing near Kirkuk.

• Abu Yasser al-Issawi (right) with ISIS members

The United States Mission Command in Iraq announced today (Friday) that the US Air Force killed the commander of the ISIS terrorist organization in Iraq two days ago in an airstrike near the city of Kirkuk.

In a tweet on the social network Twitter, the task force spokesman, Colonel Wayne Morto, reported that the terrorist rabbi, known by his nickname Abu Yasser, was under surveillance by the US military and the Iraqi army and that along with him, ten more of the organization's terrorists were killed.

"The assassination of Abu Yasser is another blow to ISIS 'attempt to raise its head in Iraq. The coalition will continue to harm key leaders and erode terrorist organizations. Terrorists - you will never be allowed to live in peace, we will persecute you to the ends of the earth," Colonel Morto wrote.

Yesterday, the Iraqi army announced that it had managed to eliminate a senior ISIS member, with the help of American coalition planes, but did not name the assassin.

Today, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Qadmi confirmed that the assassin was indeed the "governor" of Iraq on behalf of ISIS.

Abu Yasser al-Issawi, who was a junior commander during ISIS 'takeover of large parts of Iraq and Syria in 2017, was promoted to senior post after a series of assassinations that nearly wiped out the organization's top echelons in the country in the past two years.

ISIS has begun escalating its operations in the past two months in Iraq and Syria.

Earlier this month, the organization carried out a double-handed suicide bombing in the capital, Baghdad, in which 36 people were killed and more than 100 were injured.