ISIS Wali of Awja killed in clash south of Tikrit
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(IraqiNews.com) Salahaddin – On Thursday, a source in Salahuddin police announced, that the joint forces managed to kill the so-called ISIS Wali of Awja District and another leader in the organization while trying to sneak into areas south of Tikrit (170 north of Baghdad).
The source said in a statement obtained by IraqiNews.com, “Today, a security force was able to kill two senior leaders in the ISIS organization while trying to sneak into al-Sharif area west of Samarra south of Tikrit,” adding that, “One of the dead leaders was Marwan al-Tikriti the new Wali of Awja, while the second was the Amir of Salahuddin Western Front in the ISIS organization.”
Noteworthy, joint forces managed to free the city of Tikrit in the 31st of March 2015, and continued its progress to expel ISIS from the rest of the areas of the province, after the liberation of Baiji (40 km north of Tikrit) in November 2015.