According to the information released by Iraq’s Defence Ministry, Dy. Commander of Islamic State Abu Alaa al-Afari, whose real name is Abdul Rahman Mustafa Mohammed was killed in a coalition air strike on a mosque where he was meeting with other militants in the north of the country.
The coalition of 60 countries has launched a massive campaign to destroy Islamic State which is a Sunni Radical Islamic Group which had seized a large area of Iraq and Syria.
Pentagon did not confirm this news although it was aware of it.
It may be noted that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was recently seriously injured and was incapacitated. In his place Afari was nominated to lead the ISIS group.