ISIS Diyala governor killed in Salahuddin IED blast
A dead ISIS fighter’s body
He was killed along with one of his aids in a booby-trapped car explosion north of the province, a security source told the network.
“An IED placed by unknown individuals inside the car of the so-called ‘governor of Diyala’, nicknamed Abi Talha al-Ansari, went off this evening at the Hamrin mountains….leading to his death along with one of his aids,” the source stated. The pair was moving from Hawijah to the northern areas of Salahuddin, he added, on condition of anonymity.
ISIS have lost many of their leaderships in targeted attacks and ambushes at their locations, the source explained
Iraqi government forces, US-led aircrafts and popular militias are in continuous campaigns to clear Iraqi provinces of ISIS who took over large areas of the country since 2014 to establish their proclaimed “Islamic Caliphate”. The most decisive battle is now in Mosul, ISiS’s last stronghold on Iraq where forces continue operations that kicked off mid October.