Iraqi Intelligence Says ISIL Second-in-command Killed in Airstrike

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Ayad al-Jumaili, believed to be a deputy of ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed as a result of  an air strike on Friday, an Iraqi intelligence spokesman said on Saturday.

The U.S.-led anti-ISIL coalition said it was impossible  at the moment to assure  the information that was reported earlier in the day by Iraqi state-run TV.

Jumaili was killed with other ISIL commanders as a result of  a strike by the Iraqi air force in al-Qaim region, near the border with Syria, a military intelligence spokesman told Reuters.

“The air force’s planes executed with accuracy a strike on the headquarters of ISIL in al-Qaim .. leaving  the ISIL’s second-in-command…Ayad al-Jumaili, alias Abu Yahya, the war minister,” dead , state TV said earlier, citing a statement from the directorate of military intelligence.