Head of Islamic State in Iraq, Syria killed, Trump says,” his miserable life was terminated’

Head of ISIS in Syria, Iraq killed: The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq, the Iraqi prime minister Shia al-Sudani announced on Friday. The Iraqi PM said that Abu Khadija, who was the “deputy caliph” of the militant group, was killed in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with US-led coalition forces.

“The Iraqis continue their impressive victories over the forces of darkness and terrorism,” the Iraqi leader said in a statement posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.

On his Truth Social platform Friday night, US President Donald Trump said, “Today the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed. He was relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters” in coordination with the Iraqi government and the Kurdish regional government.