A senior deputy of the Islamic State in Iraq and The Levant (ISIL or ISIS) has been killed in a US airstrike in Iraq.
Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali was said to be the second-in-command within ISIS who took part in several key offensive for the militant group.
One offensive that he took part in led ISIS to capture Mosul, the country’s second largest city, last summer where they reportedly killed about 600 Shias.
Ned Price, spokesman for White House’s National Security Council said al-Hayali was involved in the organization’s ‘finance, media, operations, and logistics.
He was was also accused of moving large numbers of weapons and supplies and people between the group’s stronghold in Syria and Iraq whom according to.
Al-Hayali who was a lieutenant colonel in Saddam Hussein’s Special Forces who later served time at the US forces’ Camp Bucca in Iraq.
Before joining ISIS, al-Hayali was reportedly an operative of al-Qaeda.
