AhlulBayt News Agency - Several top commanders of the Takfiri ISIS terrorist group have been killed along with a number of other militants an Iraqi aerial attack in the western province of Anbar, All Iraq News reported.
In a statement released late on Monday, the Iraqi Joint Special Operations Command said Iraqi bombers hit their gathering in the town of Qaim.
Among those killed was a high-ranking intelligence director who was a close ally to the so-called leader of the terrorist group, Ibrahim al-Samarrai, aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, it said.
The unnamed intelligence director was reportedly responsible for orchestrating a string of terrorist attacks including a recent bomb attack in the strategic city of Hit.
He was an officer in Iraq’s defunct General Directorate of Intelligence under slain dictator Saddam Hussein. He had worked with terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi before pledging allegiance to Baghdadi.
Commander of the militants Tabuk Battalion operating inside both Syria and Iraq also died in the air raid.
ISIS press director in Baghdad and southern Iraqi regions, a fugitive from Camp Bucca prison in southern Iraq, sustained injuries in the attack, and succumbed to his grave wounds later on.
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