Military, National

Top ISIS Commander Killed as Battle Continues in Mosul

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 12, 2016

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By Mark Sumner

TOPSHOT - A Kurdish girl wears her relative's assault rifle and ammunition belt as she waits at the  Iraqi Kurdish Shaqouli checkpoint, some 35 kilometres east of Mosul, on November 10, 2016. .Since the start of the Mosul offensive the Kurds have moved their border some 10 kms closer to Iraq's second city, marking it out with a line in the sand. / AFP / Odd ANDERSEN        (Photo credit should read ODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images)

A Kurdish girl at the Iraqi Kurdish Shaqouli checkpoint

Not every ISIS leader made it out of Mosul. On Friday, both Iraqi forces and ISIS confirmed the death of a high-ranking leader.

Mahmoud Shukri al Nuaimi, a senior figure in the militant setup who also is known as “Sheikh Faris,” was killed in a coalition airstrike in western Mosul on Tuesday, the sources said.

al Nuaimi was one…

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