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| The US has killed the Isis deputy leader in an operation inside Syria, the Pentagon is reportedly set to announce. | The US has killed the Isis deputy leader in an operation inside Syria, the Pentagon is reportedly set to announce. |
| US media said that US Secretary of Defence Ash Carter and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Joseph Dunford will announce that Abd al-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli was targeted and killed. The militant was better known as Haji Imam and considered to be the deputy of Isis leader Omar al-Baghdadi | US media said that US Secretary of Defence Ash Carter and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Joseph Dunford will announce that Abd al-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli was targeted and killed. The militant was better known as Haji Imam and considered to be the deputy of Isis leader Omar al-Baghdadi |
| The former physics teacher was designated as a global terrorist by the US in 2014 and the following year it offered a reward of $7m for information about him that led to his arrest or capture. | |
| The Daily Beast said Mr Carter will also confirm the reported killing of Isis’s “minister of war” in a strike this month. | |
| Tarkhan Batirashvili, better known as Omar al-Shishani or “Omar the Chechen,” was reported to be badly wounded by an airstrike, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. | Tarkhan Batirashvili, better known as Omar al-Shishani or “Omar the Chechen,” was reported to be badly wounded by an airstrike, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. |