Top Daesh Commander Shishani Killed in Iraq

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A top Daesh [the Arabic acronym for the terrorist "ISIS" group] commander, Omar al-Shishani, was killed in Iraq, the terrorist-linked Amaq agency said on Wednesday.

However, it was in March that the Pentagon announced Shishani, known as Omar the Chechen, was believed to have died of injuries received in an air raid targeting his convoy in northeastern Syria.

For its part, citing a "military source," Amaq said Shishani was killed "in the town of Sharqat as he took part in repelling the army campaign on the city of Mosul", referring to the last Daesh-held city in Iraq.

Meanwhile, Iraqi forces are conducting operations to set the stage for a final push to Mosul, the country's second city that fell to the terrorist group in June 2014.

Although the agency did not specify when Shishani was killed, but the loss of the commander is a blow to the Takfiri group, which has suffered a string of setbacks in Iraq this year.

In addition to Shishani, the US announced that it killed Daesh deputy leader Abdul Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli in March.

Shishani, a fierce commander with roots in Georgia and a thick red beard, was one of Daesh's most notorious faces of.

He, whose nom de guerre means "Omar the Chechen", was one of Daesh leaders most wanted by Washington which had put a $5 million bounty on his head.

His exact rank was unclear, but a US official branded him as "equivalent of the secretary of war" for the Takfiri group.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team