A senior ISIL leader has been killed in an airstrike in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, residents and a local medical source said Thursday to Reuters.
Radwan Taleb al-Hamdouni, ISIL’s leader in Mosul, was killed with his driver after his car was struck in a western district of the city on Wednesday afternoon.
ISIL swept across swathes of northern Iraq in June. Iraq’s Sunni region of Anbar went almost unopposed by the Iraqi army. As a result, ISIL was able to consolidate their resources in the region.
Hamdouni was buried later on Wednesday. ISIL supporters attended the funeral, one source said to Reuters.
He was the ISIL governor of Mosul, which was captured in June. It remains the largest city in the self-declared ISIL caliphate, located by the border between northern Iraq and eastern Syria.
The United States, backed by Western and Arab allies, launched airstrikes against ISIL in Iraq in August, and later expanded operations to Syria.
