Four members of the Islamic State group, including two of its top leaders, have been killed by an Iraqi airstrike in the Hamrin Mountains of eastern Iraq.
Iraq’s Security Media Unit (SMC), an official body responsible for releasing security-related information, said four bodies of IS fighters were found in the area bombed by Iraqi F-16s on Friday.
Talib Al Mousawi, a senior official in the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), a coalition of armed groups originally formed to fight Islamic State in 2014 and now recognized as an official security force, told Reuters that the dead included two leaders IS operatives in Diyala province.
A third fighter will be identified after tests on his body are completed, according to the SMC.
The Islamic State “caliphate”, which had imposed a regime of terror on communities under its control in Iraq and Syria, collapsed in 2017 in Iraq and two years later in Syria. Today there are still some scattered nuclei of it and its leadership is hidden. It is difficult to determine the size of the organization but the United Nations estimates that it has about 10,000 fighters in its ranks.
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