A coalition airstrike in western Mosul on Thursday (April 6th) killed senior "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL) elements, including foreign leaders, the Iraqi Ministry of Defence said.
"The international coalition launched an airstrike targeting 17 Tamuz neighbourhood and destroyed an ISIL headquarters in the area," the ministry said in a statement.
Seventeen ISIL elements, including foreign ISIL leaders, were killed in the airstrike, it said.
These include Saudi national Muhsin Ahmed Awad, also known as Abu Remas, who was in charge of suicide bombers in the "Caliphate Falcons Battalion"; military official in the battalion Abdul Razzaq al-Hamdoun, known as Abu Hesham, Australian national Khaled Abu Sharaf, and French national Abdullah Khaled, known as Abu Aisha, who was in charge of the "inghimasi" fighters in the same battalion.
