Baquba A prominent leader of ISIS was killed in an ambush northeast of Baquba, the center of Diyala Governorate.
A security source told the correspondent of the National Iraqi News Agency (NINA) that “a force from the intelligence of the 24th Brigade in the Popular Mobilization managed to kill the so-called Osama al-Naher, the most dangerous former leader of al-Qaeda and the most prominent leader of ISIS, who has been chased by the security forces for years in an ambush in the suburbs of Muqdadiya, northeast of Baquba.”
He added that the killing of al-Naher is a severe blow to ISIS in the Hamrin Basin in Diyala.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency