Top Aide of ISIL’s Baghdadi Killed in Joint Operation of Russian, Syrian Forces

05 July, 2017 10:21

One of the most notorious European commanders of ISIL terrorist group and the right hand man of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a joint operation of the Syrian Special Forces and the Russian Air Force at the border with Iraq.

Lavdrim al-Mohajeri, the senior Albanian commander of ISIL nom de guerre Abu Abdullah Knosovo’yee, was killed along with six of his guards in an airstrike by the Russian warplanes in coordination with the Syrian Army’s Tiger Forces.

The hunted Albanian commander of ISIL was responsible for the massacre and abduction of the people, and the main the mastermind of ISIL’s terrorist operation abroad.

Iraqi media quoted Fadhel Abu Raqif, a security expert, as saying that al-Mohajeri was killed in an air raid at Syria’s border with Iraq.

Al-Mohajeri that was on a 4-month-long trip to Albania and Kosovo came back to Syrian in May.

The source said that after ISIL lost a number of commanders in clashes with Iraqi and Syrian forces in the last several months, al-Mahajeri was considered as the right hand man of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Meantime, a local source in Nineveh province reported on Monday that hundreds of leaflets and flyers speaking of the death of ISIL’s ring Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi were distributed by unknown people in the Central part of the town of Tal Afar in Northwestern Iraq.

“A number of these leaflets have been distributed along the roads. Some similar flyers have also been found on the walls in trade centers. The leaflets and flyers carry normal logo and emblem of the ISIL. The literature used in them is the same as the one always used by the ISIL, but the terrorist group has gone on alert and launched a search operation to find those that have released and distributed the papers,” he said.

“The way the flyers were written and the fashion of their distribution, though, indicates that those behind the move are from most influential ranks of the ISIL terrorist group,” the source went on to say.

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