Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani announced that the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq was killed during a military operation along with eight other senior leaders of the terrorist group.
Al-Sudani said that Jasim al-Mazraui Abu Abdul Kader was killed in the Hamrin Mountains of Salahudin province in an operation by counter-terrorism and national security forces.
"There is no place for terrorists in Iraq, we will pursue them to their hideouts and eliminate them," al-Sudani said in a statement.
The command of the Iraqi forces said that the operation was carried out "with technical support and the exchange of precise intelligence information by the forces of the international coalition".
The identities of the others killed in the operation will be released after confirmation by DNA tests, the statement added.
It was also stated that "a large amount of weapons, ammunition and equipment was confiscated."
The United States announced an agreement with the Iraqi government last month to end the US coalition's military mission fighting Islamic State by next year, with troops withdrawing from some of the bases they have used during a two-decade military presence in the country.
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