Six aides to the ISIS chief al Baghdadi killed in airstrike on Iraq’s Anbar

Six aides to the ISIS chief al Baghdadi killed in airstrike on Iraq’s Anbar

Six top aides to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi were killed Tuesday in an airstrike that targeted their 4×4 cars in the Iraqi province of Anbar, a military source was quoted as saying.

“Iraqi jet fighters, using intelligence information, targeted six Islamic State warlords, who used to aid the group’s chief Abdu Bakr al-Baghdadi, while driving 4×4 cars in the desert of of Ar-Rutbah, west of Anbar,” the source told the Arabic-language Alghad Press news website.

“The slain terrorists are implicated in several car bomb blasts in Nineveh, Salahuddin and Anbar provinces, in addition to launching an attack on a security checkpoint on the Iraqi-Syrian border,” the source said.

They are also behind the assassination of a number of officials and key figures in Ar-Rutbah district in recent years, the source noted.

No reports about al-Baghdadi have been heard since September 2017, when he urged supporters to wage attacks against the West and keep fighting in Syria and neighboring Iraq.

Al-Baghdadi emerged as leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, one of the groups that later became Islamic State, in 2010. In October 2011, the US officially designated al-Baghdadi as a terrorist. It has offered a reward of up to $25m (£19.6m) for information leading to his capture or death.

Source: Iraqi News