Daesh ’Rocket Expert’ Killed in US Airstrike in Iraq

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A Daesh [the Arabic acronym for the terrorist "ISIS" group] rocket expert believed to have been involved in an attack that killed a US Marine died in a drone strike in Iraq, a spokesman said Sunday.

US Staff Sergeant Louis Cardin was killed last month by the group's rocket attack that also wounded eight Marines at an artillery position in the Makhmur area of northern Iraq.

"Several hours ago, we killed a Daesh member believed responsible for the rocket attack that resulted in the death of Sergeant Cardin," Colonel Steve Warren, the spokesman for the US-led operation against the terrorists, told journalists in Baghdad.

Identifying him as Jasim Khadijah, he added that he "was a Daesh member and former Iraqi officer."

According to the same source, Khadijah was "a rocket expert, apparently... he controlled those attacks," and the strike killed five other Daesh fighters and destroyed a drone and two vehicles.

Daesh has been overrunning large parts of Iraq in 2014, but the country's forces have since regained significant ground with the popular forces fighting fiercely to defend their homeland.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team