Shafaq News – Baghdad/Aleppo

On Friday, Iraq’s Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) announced that a senior ISIS commander was killed in a US-led Global air assault in Syria’s Aleppo province, based on intelligence provided by Iraqi security services.

According to the CTS, the target—previously the governor of Wilayat al-Furat and a member of ISIS’s delegation committee—was considered a high-priority and highly active threat.

Meanwhile, CENTCOM confirmed that two of the commander’s escorts were also killed during the operation.