The strike was successful and completely destroyed the target.
Iraqi military aircraft have carried out an airstrike against high-profile members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in Syria’s northeastern province of Hasakah as Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi had pledged to continue airstrikes on the positions and headquarters of the extremists in the neighboring war-battered country.
Abadi’s office said in a statement that the 66-year-old prime had ordered the “painful strike” which targeted “a meeting of Daesh commanders south of al-Dushashiya desert region in Syrian territory. The position was completely destroyed.”
Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC) spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Rasool later stated that F-16 fighter jets were used in the early morning strike, and the raid was “successful.”
On April 23, intelligence sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Arabic-language Shafaaq news agency that Daesh second-in-command had been killed during an Iraqi airstrike inside the Syrian territory.
