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Military intelligence: 2 senior IS Arab members killed in western Mosul

 Military intelligence: 2 senior IS Arab members killed in western Mosul

Islamic State flag in Mosul.

Islamic State flag in Mosul.
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Two senior Arab Islamic State members were killed in Iraqi airstrikes on western Mosul, according to a statement on Wednesday by the military intelligence service.

Iraqi fighter jets bombarded al-Haramat district in western Mosul, killing the pair, according to the statement. Those were Hashem (Abu Abdullah) Abdel-Wahab, a Saudi national in charge of IS accoةmodations in Haramat, as well as Saab Khleif, aka Abu Zoheir, a Tunisian who was the district’s military commander.

Earlier on Wednesday, Federal Police chief, Shaker Jawdat, said in statements his forces had killed 30 Islamic State members, including the commander of the group’s “special forces”, Abdel Qader Saleh, aka Abu Jarrah, near the fifth bridge linking the western area with the east.

Dozens of IS militants of diverse nationalities were killed in security strikes in western Mosul over the past two days, including booby-trapping officials and children fighters recruiters.

Iraqi government forces, backed by allied paramilitary militias and a U.S.-led coalition, have entered a fifth month of operations to retake the city of Mosul from IS, recapturing the eastern side of the city in January and currently nearing the recapture of the west. Generals say they recaptured at least 50 percent of the western side.

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