Admin l Friday, January 06, 2017
SOUTHWEST ASIA — An established leader of the Islamic State of Syria, Iraq and Levant, ISIL Mahmud al-Isawi has been killed by the combined task force, code named, Operation Inherent Resolve.
He was struck and killed by a coalition precision airstrike on December 31, 2016, in Raqqa, Syria.
Mahmud al-Isawi, was a long-standing ISIL member who supported the organization’s media and intelligence structure in Fallujah before relocating to Raqqa, the Department of Defence statement said.
Mahmud al-Isawi controlled the flow of instructions and finances between ISIL-held areas and ISIL leaders, and provided support to propaganda and intelligence outlets.
The release said al-Isawi was also known to have facilitated trans-regional travel with other ISIL external operations coordinators and had a close working and personal relationship with Abd al-Basit al-Iraqi, the emir of ISIL’s Middle East attack network, who was killed in a coalition airstrike, Nov. 2, 2016.
Al-Isawi was the 16th significant member of ISIL’s external operations network to be killed by coalition forces in 2016, the release said. His death, combined with the recent successive deaths of other ISIL leaders plotting terrorist attacks, has degraded ISIL’s trans-regional attack and facilitation network, and is forcing ISIL to increase their focus on internal security, the release noted.
