US Air Strike Kills ‘IS Number Two’: White House

WASHINGTON: The second-in-charge of the Islamic State activist gathering has been killed in a US air strike in northern Iraq, the White House said Friday. 
The National Security Gathering distinguished the killed aggressor as Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, otherwise called Haji Mutaz, and said he was IS pioneer Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's senior appointee. 


US powers say they found themselves able to murder him, alongside an IS "media agent" known as Abu Abdullah, on August 18 in a strike on a vehicle close to the city of Mosul. 

The White House depicted Al-Hayali as an individual from the Islamic State's decision committee, and "an essential facilitator for moving a lot of weapons, explosives, vehicles and individuals in the middle of Iraq and Syria. 

"He bolstered ISIL operations in both nations and was accountable for ISIL operations in Iraq, where he was instrumental in arranging operations in the course of recent years, incorporating the ISIL hostile in Mosul in June 2014," it said. 

In the same way as other senior Iraqi activists, before joining the IS gathering, Al-Hayali had been an individual from Al-Qaeda's Iraqi group. 

AFP