A senior leader of the ISIS Sunni radical group has been killed in airstrikes carried out by the US-led international coalition in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a Kurdish source told Efe news agency on Thursday.
The head of the Iraqi Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Mosul, Esmat Rajab, said that the deceased, identified as Abu Saad al-lahini, was in charge of ISIS general security in the city.
The radical leader was killed while driving his car in the al-Muthanna neighbourhood of Mosul. Rajab said the airstrikes began Wednesday morning and continued until the early hours of Thursday.