ERBIL, Kurdistan Region--A Kurdish Islamic State leader has been killed in a US-led coalition airstrike on Mosul. Hemn Jalal, known within ISIS as Abdulrahman Kurdi, is from southern Kurdistan and he was killed along with three other ISIS militants in an airstrike on Mosul on Friday, Saeed Mamuzini, media officer for the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) in Mosul province, confirmed to Rudaw. Early reports that Jalal is from Halabja have not been confirmed. About 50 Kurds remain members of ISIS, but “none of them have a high rank and their fate is unknown,” Mariwan Naqshbandi, spokesperson for the Ministry of Endowment and Religious Affairs in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), told Rudaw. When ISIS first formed and began seizing territory in Iraq and Syria, hundreds of Iraqi Kurds joined their ranks. Many have been killed and some have left the terrorist group and returned to the Kurdistan Region. Since late 2014 there are no confirmed reports of Kurds being recruited by ISIS. But ISIS continues to try to influence Iraqi Kurds through media. The KRG recently learned that broadcasts of two Islamic radio stations in Mosul were being received in the Kurdish districts of Barda Rash and Akre. The KRG’s Ministry of Peshmerga investigated this problem, describing it as “a threat to Peshmerga forces and the people of the region,” Halgurd Hikmat from the ministry told Rudaw on 13 June. “We must resolve this problem as soon as possible,” he added.
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