Iraqi jets bomb IS rest house, kill Baghdadi’s right-hand man in Diyala
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Security troops have killed the right-hand man of the supreme leader of Islamic State in Diyala, the security committee announced on Friday.
Speaking to AlSumaria News, Sadeq al-Husseini, head of the security committee of Diyala provincial council, said. “The airstrike targeted a rest house by Islamic State members in al-Zor basin, northeast of Baquba, which left two Islamic State members, one of whom was a leader. Preliminary information showed that the leader was the right-hand man of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in the so-called Diyala State.”
“The targeted rest house was an important headquarter for IS, from which the group’s dormant cells are run,” Husseini added.
Earlier today, Maj. Gen. Mazhar al-Azzawi, commander of Diyala Operations, said shelling the rest house by Iraqi fighter jets left two IS members killed.
News reports said security troops shot dead Abu Walid al-Shishany, one of Baghdadi’s closest aides, while he was in a desert area on the outskirts of Kirkuk, earlier in April.
Four Iraqi soldiers were killed, injured in bomb blast, northeast of Diyala
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Four Iraqi soldiers were killed and injured in a bomb blast in northeast of Diyala, an informed security source from the province said on Friday.
“An Islamic State haven was destroyed by the U.S.-led Coalition jets near Muqdadiya region, northeast of Diyala,” the source told Alghad Press. “Army troops then advanced to check the haven.”
“A bomb, planted near the haven, went off as the troops advanced, leaving a soldier killed and three others, including an officer, wounded, according to the official estimates of the hospital.