ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – An Islamic State (ISIS) ‘police commander’ In Iraq’s Nineveh province was reportedly killed in a wave of airstrikes by US-led coalition forces in the city of Tal Afar west of Mosul, a Kurdish official told Rudaw on Saturday.
“On Friday evening, the US coalition launched air raids on the Sara district in the center of Tal Afar, which led to the death of Abdulhadi Qrdy, known as the ISIS Nineveh police commander,” Saeed Mamuzini, media officer of the Mosul branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), told Rudaw.
Tal Afar lies 63 kilometers west of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city which has been under ISIS control since June 2014.
US airstrikes have been increasingly targeting senior ISIS leaders.
In February, Col. Steve Warren, the US military spokesman in Baghdad, warned that coalition forces also were hunting for ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
“I hope that al-Baghdadi watches these press conferences because I want him to know that we are hunting him, and we will find him,” Warren said.
“We are going to find Baghdadi, and we -- he will taste justice. I don't know if that justice will look like a Hellfire missile, or if it will look like a dark prison cell somewhere, but he will find justice one day,” Warren vowed.
“On Friday evening, the US coalition launched air raids on the Sara district in the center of Tal Afar, which led to the death of Abdulhadi Qrdy, known as the ISIS Nineveh police commander,” Saeed Mamuzini, media officer of the Mosul branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), told Rudaw.
Tal Afar lies 63 kilometers west of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city which has been under ISIS control since June 2014.
US airstrikes have been increasingly targeting senior ISIS leaders.
In February, Col. Steve Warren, the US military spokesman in Baghdad, warned that coalition forces also were hunting for ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
“I hope that al-Baghdadi watches these press conferences because I want him to know that we are hunting him, and we will find him,” Warren said.
“We are going to find Baghdadi, and we -- he will taste justice. I don't know if that justice will look like a Hellfire missile, or if it will look like a dark prison cell somewhere, but he will find justice one day,” Warren vowed.
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