A top ISIS terrorist Omar al-Shishani, has been killed in Iraq, the jihadist-linked Amaq agency has said.
The Pentagon announced in March that Shishani, known as Omar the Chechen, was believed to have died of injuries received in an air raid targeting his convoy in northeastern Syria — details at odds with Amaq's account.
Citing a "military source," Amaq said on Wednesday Shishani was killed "in the town of Sharqat as he took part in repelling the military campaign on the city of Mosul", referring to the last ISIS-held city in Iraq.
Iraqi forces are conducting operations to set the stage for a final push to Mosul, the country's second city that fell to IS in June 2014.