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Sunday 10 Jan 2016 - 18:50 Makkah mean time-30-3-1437
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Baghdad (IINA) – An aide to Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in an airstrike in the western province of Anbar, Anadolu Agency reported on Saturday citing a media network affiliated with the Iraqi Defense Ministry.
The man, identified as Ali Mohammed al-Ubaydi, was killed in a raid in the town of Barwanah, according to a statement issued by the War Media Network.
The statement did not give any dates, but said that al-Ubaydi was one of the senior figures within the terrorist organization that escaped from the Abu Ghraib Prison in Baghdad.
Iraqi security forces retook control of Barwanah from Daesh, the ministry said in a statement last Monday. This came just days after Iraqi forces defeated the militant group in Ramadi.
Captain Ziyad al-Nimrawi, Barwanah’s police chief, told Anadolu Agency that Iraqi forces, backed by the U.S.-led international coalition’s air force, killed 22 Daesh militants and took control of Barwanah.
“Seven pro-government tribal fighters and Iraqi troops were killed and 37 others were injured during the battle,” al-Nimrawi added.
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