Air strikes kill 18 Islamic State ‘leaders’ in last month: U.S.
Air strikes by the United States and its allies have killed 18 Islamic State "leaders" in the last 30 days, 13 of them in Mosul, the group's de facto Iraqi capital, a U.S. military spokesman said on Thursday. Colonel John Dorrian, a spokesman for U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria, told a Pentagon briefing that […]Air strikes by the United States and its allies have killed 18 Islamic State "leaders" in the last 30 days, 13 of them in Mosul, the group's de facto Iraqi capital, a U.S. military spokesman said on Thursday.
Colonel John Dorrian, a spokesman for U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria, told a Pentagon briefing that many of those targeted were military commanders, propagandists and those facilitating foreign recruits into territory controlled by Islamic State, which has sympathizers worldwide.
"By taking these individuals off the battlefield, it creates some really disruptive effects to enemy command and control," Dorrian said.
