Friday 15 May 2015

Isis number 2 leader killed in an airstrike

Isis number 2 leader has been killed in an airstrike on Wednesday in the coalition in the northern Iraq, said the air strike led by the U.S. the militant leader, known as Abu Alaa al-Afari, was killed in at strike near the northern city Tal Afar. based on accurate intelligence,” a coalition airstrike had targeted Mr. Afari and several other leaders who had gathered in a mosque. Afari was killed alongside dozens of militants who he had been meeting at the al-Shuhada (Martyrs) mosque in the village of al-Iyadhiya, near Tal Afar, where he was reportedly a well-known preacher. Tal Afar, in the northern province of Nineveh, was seized by IS in June 2014.The general did not specify which country had carried out the air strike, but the US has been responsible for the vast majority since the coalition campaign began last August. But the U.S military denied the coalition on the mosque airstrike.

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