IS Chief of Euphrates area injured in Mosul airstrikes: Kurdistan CT

The Kurdistan Region Security Council’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Sunday confirmed the Islamic State’s (IS) Chief of the Euphrates area was severely injured following coalition airstrikes on April 22.

ERBIL, Kurdistan (Kurdistan24) – The Kurdistan Region Security Council’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Sunday confirmed the Islamic State’s (IS) Chief of the Euphrates area was severely injured following coalition airstrikes on April 22.

Coalition forces targeted Hassan Saoud Khalil Khalifa al-Jabouri, also known as Abu Talout, in his house in the Rifaai neighborhood in west Mosul.

On the same day, airstrikes targeted and killed IS’ Head of the Education Department (Diwan) in Tal Afar.

“[IS’] education department official Ali Razaa Mahmoud was killed on Saturday in an airstrike by coalition jets in Tal Afar town, western Mosul,” the CTD said in a statement posted on its Facebook page.

Iraqi military intelligence services also claimed to have killed the IS commander in charge of training snipers, Abu Abdullah al-Kuwaiti, in the al-Saha district, western Mosul, on Saturday.

In the past, the CTD have effectively targeted and arrested key members of the militant group.

The insurgents emerged in northern Iraq in 2014 and began controlling swaths of territory while imposing their rule on civilians in the country.

With the efforts of the Kurdistan Region Peshmerga forces, IS’ threat was continuously foiled.

The Kurdish forces made notable gains against the extremist’s in Sinjar (Shingal) and Kirkuk Province.

The group has since sustained severe personnel and ground losses.

Moreover, an offensive was launched in mid-October to retake Mosul, the second-largest Iraqi city and the militants’ last urban stronghold in the country.

The US-led coalition had estimated the number of remaining IS militants in Mosul are less than 1,000.

 

Reporting by G. H. Renaud

Editing by Karzan Sulaivany