ERBIL, Kurdistan Region—An Islamic State (ISIS) frontline commander was killed in a roadside bomb that targeted his convoy outside Mosul Sunday evening, a source inside the city said.
The source said Abu Abdullah Kosovoi, an Albanian Kosovar was killed three kilometers from the Tal Afar airport when two bombs hit his convoy.
“The convoy of six vehicles was on its way to Khalid army base when it was hit by two bombs near Ayn Jahish,” he said.
The source said that members of the Mosul Brigades—a local resistant group—set fire to three vehicles that survived the bombing.
Abu Abdullah was said to be ISIS’s frontline commander in Iraq.
According to Ismat Rajab, a Kurdish official in the area, Mosul Brigades fighters also killed two ISIS militants in a targeted attack near Bartala Sunday evening.
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