AhlulBayt News Agency - Coalition fighter jets hit several strongholds for the radical group of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) in the vicinity of Mosul city in Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh, killing a prominent insurgent official, informed local sources reported on Friday.
Local activists confirmed that at least one prominent leader was killed along with several escorts in Friday’s attack.
Media activist Muhammad Allo reported that the so-called ISIS governor of Hawija, Abu Anwar, was killed on Friday in an airstrike conducted by the coalition forces near Jawana bridge in the vicinity of Qayyarah subdistrict [in southern Nineveh Governorate on the west bank of Tigris river].
The source explained that Abu Anwar, who holds the Iraqi citizenship, was from the people of Baiji city [130 miles north of Baghdad].
In another development, head of the Nineveh media center Raafat al-Zarari confirmed that the city of Mosul is suffering a long-term blockade imposed by the coalition forces which target ISIS’s headquarters, shipment trucks, and supply lines on a daily basis.
Al-Zarari reported that ISIS has been transporting food by boats to the civilians [mostly ISIS supporters] stranded in the village of Kabruk south of Mosul since the Qayyarah Bridge had been destroyed by the coalition forces a few weeks earlier.
On Saturday, Jassim Salim al-Matyouti, ISIS governor of al-Jazeera area, and Ahmed Ghanem al-Hadidi, Emir of the so-called ‘Cubs of the Caliphate’, were killed in an airstrike on the group’s strongholds in the city of Mosul, according to local sources.
Al-Zarari reported on Saturday that the warplanes targeted the main headquarters of the ‘Bank of Mosul’ in the western part of the city, killing a number of insurgents.
“At least four ISIS insurgents were killed and around US $1,000,000 was burned in the bombing of the bank,” he reported, pointing out “the strike also caused a considerable material damage to the nearby buildings, shops, and parked cars.”
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