ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iraq’s defense ministry announced Thursday that its forces had killed a wanted Islamic State (ISIS) leader responsible for the execution of civilians and the mastermind behind many car bombs. Mohammed Abul Manaf al-Rawi was severely wounded in air strikes on January 7, and died at the Shifa hospital in the tonw of Albu Kamal in Anbar on Wednesday. . Al-Raqi was reportedly the al-Qaida's suicide attacks mastermind in Iraq prior to joining the Islamic State, said the defense ministry. A defense statement said that al-Raqi was behind many car bomb attacks Baghdad and Ramadi and carried out numerous executions in Hit and Rawa in the Western Anbar province. Another prominent ISIS figure behind many car bombs in the Kirkuk area was killed in a coalition air strike this week.
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