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Two top ISIS leaders killed in coalition airstrikes

By Anna Giaritelli
Published July 2, 2016 12:53am ET
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Two top ISIS leaders killed in coalition airstrikes
"Their deaths, along with strikes against other ISIL leaders in the past month, have critically degraded ISIL's leadership ability in Mosul and removed two of their most senior military members in northern Iraq," said Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) | Hadi Mizban

Two senior Islamic State commanders were killed in coalition airstrikes near Mosul, Iraq on June 25, the Pentagon confirmed Friday.

The Islamic State’s deputy minister of war, Basim Muhammad Ahmad Sultan al-Bajari, and military commander in Mosul, Hatim Talib al-Hamduni, were killed, according to a Pentagon official.

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