This Article is From Apr 03, 2016

ISIS Rocket Expert Khadijah Killed In Drone Strike: Coalition Spokesman

ISIS Rocket Expert Khadijah Killed In Drone Strike: Coalition Spokesman

According to the anti-ISIS coalition, Jasim Khadijah has been killed in a drone strike. (File photo)

Baghdad: Jasim Khadijah, an ISIS member believed to be responsible for a deadly attack by terrorists on US troops in northern Iraq, has been killed in a drone strike, a spokesman of the anti-ISIS coalition said in Baghdad on Sunday.

"He was a rocket expert, he was controlling these attacks," the spokesman, US Army Colonel Steve Warren, told reporters, referring to the shelling last month of a base used by US troops in northern Iraq in which a US Marine was killed and several others were wounded.

It was the second death of a US service member in combat since the United States first struck the terrorist group in 2014.
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