BAGHDAD, Feb 3 (NNN-NINA) – Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, declared yesterday that, a senior leader of the Daesh group was killed, near the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
Abu Hassan al-Ghreibawi, the group leader in southern Iraq, and Ghanim Sabah, responsible for the movement of the Daesh operatives, were killed, al-Kadhimi, who is also commander-in-chief of the Iraqi forces, said in a tweet.
Yahia Rasoul, spokesman of the commander-in-chief, said, U.S.-led coalition aircraft conducted an airstrike, based on Iraqi intelligence reports, on a Daesh hideout in Abu Ghraib, 20 km west of Baghdad.
Al-Ghreibawi was involved in supervising the Jan 21 twin suicide bomb attacks in downtown Baghdad, and Sabah was responsible for transporting the suicide bombers, who blew themselves up, Rasoul said, adding that, two more Daesh militants were also killed in the airstrike.
On Jan 28, al-Kadhimi declared that Abu Yasir al-Eisawi, deputy Daesh leader and leader of the militants in Iraq, was killed by Iraqi forces, in operation in the south of Iraq’s northern city of Mosul.
Iraqi forces intensified efforts to confront the recent increase of Daesh deadly attacks, including the twin suicide bombings on Jan 21, that killed 32 and wounded more than 100 others in Baghdad, as well as, the attack on Hashd Shaabi outpost in Salahudin on Jan 23, that killed 11 paramilitary members and wounded 12 others.
