Iraq says ISIS leader’s deputy killed in air raid

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The second deputy of Islamic State (ISIS) leader  Abu Bakr Baghdadi has allegedly been killed in an airstrike west of Iraq’s Anban province, an Iraqi official announced on Saturday. 

Asi Ali Mohammad Nasir al-Obeydi, a military chief and the number two deputy of Baghdadi, was killed in an airstrike by Iraqi air forces in the Parwana region, the statement said. 

Iraq said on Thursday that ISIS spokesman, Mohamad Adnani, was  wounded by Iraqi airstrikes in the same area. 

Ghasan Isawi, spokesman of the Anbar tribal forces, also told Rudaw on Thursday that at least 200 ISIS gunmen were killed in the Parwana region.