Nine ISIS commanders in Iraq, including the group's top leader in the country, have been killed in a joint US-Iraqi raid, Baghdad said on Tuesday, with the Pentagon saying two American troops were injured.
Iraq's Joint Operations Command said in a statement that counter-terrorism forces “killed nine terrorists, among them the so-called governor of Iraq” for ISIS, identifying him as Jassim Al Mazrouei Abu Abdel Qader.
The statement said the raid in the northern Hamrin Mountains was carried out “with technical support” and intelligence provided by the US-led coalition, and that “large quantities of weapons” were seized in the operation, which was continuing.
Pentagon spokesman Maj Gen Pat Ryder said that US Central Command and Iraqi forces “conducted a partner raid in Iraq targeting several senior ISIS leaders” overnight.
“The raid resulted in the death of multiple ISIS operatives,” Maj Gen Ryder told journalists. “We do have reports of two US service members that were injured."
ISIS overran large areas of Iraq and neighbouring Syria in 2014 and was defeated in Iraq in 2017 by local forces backed by the international military coalition. In 2019, it lost the last territory it held in Syria to US-backed Kurdish forces.
But remnants of the group are still active in Iraq and continue to launch sporadic attacks.
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In numbers: PKK’s money network in Europe
Germany: PKK collectors typically bring in $18 million in cash a year – amount has trebled since 2010
Revolutionary tax: Investigators say about $2 million a year raised from ‘tax collection’ around Marseille
Extortion: Gunman convicted in 2023 of demanding $10,000 from Kurdish businessman in Stockholm
Drug trade: PKK income claimed by Turkish anti-drugs force in 2024 to be as high as $500 million a year
Denmark: PKK one of two terrorist groups along with Iranian separatists ASMLA to raise “two-digit million amounts”
Contributions: Hundreds of euros expected from typical Kurdish families and thousands from business owners
TV channel: Kurdish Roj TV accounts frozen and went bankrupt after Denmark fined it more than $1 million over PKK links in 2013
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