The prime minister of the country, Donald Trump, claimed that an Islamic State (IS) leader with responsibility for international operations was killed by Iranian security forces. Later, Trump claimed that his “miserable life was terminated.”
IS cells continue to be active and launch sporadic attacks against Iraq’s army and police despite the country declaring in 2017 that the jihadist group would be defeated on its territory.
On the social media platform X, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani wrote that Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rufayi “was one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world.”
According to the Iraqi premier, the jihadist was the group’s alleged “governor” in the Syrian and Iraqi provinces when the United States sanctioned him in 2023.
Sudani added that Rufayi was “responsible for the foreign operations offices.”
He praised the operation by Iraqi intelligence that was carried out in conjunction with the US-led anti-jihadist coalition in Iraq but did not specify when Rufayi was killed.
Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, “Today, the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed.”
Our intrepid warfighters relentlessly pursued him. Along with another ISIS member, he and another member of his miserable life was ended in concert with the Iraqi government and the Kurdish Regional Government.
The US Central Command claimed that the strike had killed the “Global ISIS #2 leader… and one more ISIS operative” in an ostensible video that appeared to be posted on X.
It claimed Rufayi was matched with Rufayi through a DNA test and that both fighters were wearing unexploded “suicide vests.”
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– Lingering presence
Nine IS group commanders were killed, according to Baghdad in October last year. According to the Iraqi Joint Operations Command at the time, the so-called “gover of Iraq for IS,” Jassim al-Mazrouei Abu Abdel Qader.
After capturing large portions of Iraq and Syria in 2014, IS declared a “caliphate” and began a horrific rule.
IS was defeated by Iraqi forces supported by the international coalition in late 2017. Two years later, the organization lost its final province of Syria.
The group has nevertheless continued to operate in Syria’s vast desert and has primarily attacked rural areas in Iraq.
Iraq, which currently considers its security forces to be invincible against the jihadists, has about 2,500 American troops stationed there.
By September 2026, the international coalition would have completed its ten-year military engagement in federal Iraq, according to a statement released by the US and Iraq in late September.
Source: Channels TV
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