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A high-profile leader of ISIS, described as one of the world’s “most dangerous men,” was killed in a US air strike Friday.

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By Alissa J. Rubin Reporting from Erbil, Iraq An airstrike killed a senior Islamic State leader believed to be the head of the group in Iraq and Syria on Friday, in a joint Iraqi and U.S ...

The head of ISIS has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence ... in a statement posted on social media site X. Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, or "Abu ...

Rifai, also known as "Abu Khadijah," was killed in the strike along with another operative from the group, officials said.

Following the attack, CENTCOM said their forces and Iraqi troops examined the site and found two bodies, which were wearing unexploded "suicide vests" and had multiple weapons. It added that Abu ...

at their web site. "Today the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed. He was relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters. His miserable life was terminated, along with another member of ...

The US and Iraqi troops found the two ISIS members dead at the site of the strike. Both were “wearing un-exploded ‘suicide vests’ and had multiple weapons,” according to the CENTCOM statement.