A senior Islamic State (IS) group leader in Iraq and Syria has been killed in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with US-led coalition forces, the Iraqi prime minister has said, Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifa “was considered one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world”...
The US Central Command (Centcom) posted on X what appeared to be a video of the strike, which it said was carried out in Iraq’s western Al Anbar province on Thursday, Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifa was the head of IS’s most senior decision-making body and was responsible for operations, logistics, and planning conducted by IS globally, the US Central Command said.
He also directed a large portion of finance for the group’s global organization, Centcom added, Posting on his Truth Social platform, President Trump said: “His miserable life was terminated, along with another member of ISIS, in coordination with the Iraqi Government and the Kurdish Regional Government. PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!”
Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifa was found dead alongside one other IS operative, Centcom said, “Both terrorists were wearing unexploded ‘suicide vests’ and had multiple weapons,” it added, Centcom and Iraqi forces were able to identify him through a DNA match from DNA collected on a previous raid where he “narrowly escaped”, it added.
