“The air strike was carried out based on accurate intelligence information and resulted in the killing of Ziya Adil Khalil Al Akavi, one of leaders of the IS terrorist group, and 16 others, as well as destructing their headquarters,” Mahalawi said.
The British newspaper Daily Star reported on Sunday that AN SAS sniper blew the head off a terrorist commander while he was teaching Islamic State recruits how to decapitate prisoners. The shooter fired at a range of almost 1,200 metres after his team sneaked into a terrorist-controlled enclave of northern Syria two weeks ago.
Some 5 civilians have been killed, 15 injured in a series of explosions committed in Iraq’s capital Baghdad. In another street of the city, bodies of a man and a woman were found.