Islamic state: “One of the most dangerous terrorists”-Washington and Baghdad announce the killing of excessive IS chief | EUROtoday

According to Washington and Baghdad, a pacesetter of the jihadist militia Islamic State (IS) was killed in an air raid in Iraq. Makki Muslih al-Rufaji was “one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and worldwide,” wrote the Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Schia al-Sudani on Friday within the on-line service X.

Al-Rufaji, who was occupied by the United States in 2023, was the so-called governor of IS within the Syrian and Iraqi provinces, in keeping with the Iraqi Prime Minister. He was due to this fact additionally liable for coordinating international missions.

US President Donald Trump stated that the “lifelong life” of the IS chief and one other jihadist had resulted in coordination with the Iraqi authorities and the Kurdish regional authorities.

The US Central Command revealed a video on X to indicate the air raid within the province of Al-Anbar. Accordingly, Al-Rufaji was the world’s quantity two within the IS militia.

IS had taken massive areas of Iraq and neighboring Syria in 2014, proclaimed a caliphate there and unfold concern and horror with its rule. In 2017, IS was defeated by Iraqi armed forces supported by a army coalition listed by the USA. However, IS cells are nonetheless energetic in Iraq and have occasional assaults on troopers and law enforcement officials.

As a part of the worldwide coalition towards IS militia listed by the USA, 2500 US troopers are presently stationed in Iraq. At the top of September, the governments in Baghdad and Washington agreed that the anti-IS coalition ended its use in Iraq inside a 12 months and in September 2026 additionally withdrawn from the autonomous Kurdish area in northern Iraq.