Islamic State Second-in-Command Killed in Airstrike, Iraq Says

Posted on AllSides May 13th, 2015
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Iraq’s Defense Ministry said an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition in the country has killed Islamic State’s second-in-command.

The strike targeted a meeting of Islamic State leaders at a mosque in the city of Tal Afar, west of Mosul in the northern province of Nineveh, killing several people including Abu Ala Al Afri, according to a statement Wednesday from the ministry.

The ministr

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