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The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with US-led coalition forces, the Iraqi prime minister announced Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Iraqis continue their impressive victories over the forces of darkness and terrorism,\u201d Prime Minister Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said in a statement posted on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, or \u201cAbu Khadija,\u201d was \u201cdeputy caliph\u201d of the militant group and \u201cone of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On his Truth Social platform Friday night, US President Donald Trump said: \u201cToday the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed. He was relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters\u201d in coordination with the Iraqi government and the Kurdish regional government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CNN: The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with US-led coalition forces, the Iraqi prime minister announced Friday. \u201cThe Iraqis continue their impressive victories over the forces of darkness and terrorism,\u201d Prime Minister Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said in a statement posted on X. Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, or \u201cAbu Khadija,\u201d was \u201cdeputy caliph\u201d of the militant group and \u201cone of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world,\u201d the statement said. On his Truth Social platform Friday night,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45493,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45491\/revisions\/45493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}