White House Says 2 ISIS Deputy Leaders Killed Recently
Sat Aug 22, 2015 10:48:25
A deputy leader of so-called “Islamic State” (IS), Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, has been killed in a U.S. military strike in northern Iraq, the White House said, according to BBC News. Also reported a second ISIS member who coordinated media, known as Abu Abdullah, was killed in the same air strike as Hayali. It comes several months after Iraqi defense officials declared another "ISIS second-in-command", Abdul Rahman Mustafa Mohammed, dead in an air strike in northern Iraq.