Senior leader of the Islamic State killed in Iraq, Trump says that his “miserable life was over”

The leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been murdered, Iraq’s Prime Minister announced Friday.

Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, or “Abu Khadija”, was murdered in an operation By members of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service together with the forces of the coalition led by the United States, said Iraq Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, in a statement.

The prime minister described Al-Rifai as “one of Iraq’s most dangerous terrorists and the world.”

President of the United States Donald Trump He reacted to the news on his social networks Truth Social, saying that the “miserable life of Al-Rifai was finished.”

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Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani described Al-Rifai as “one of Iraq’s most dangerous terrorists and the world.” (AP)

“Today, Isis fugitive leader in Iraq was killed,” Trump wrote Friday night. “Our intrepid warriors persecuted him relentlessly. His miserable life was finished, together with another ISIS member, in coordination with the Iraqi government and the Kurdish regional government.”

“Peace through force!” The president added.

The US Central Command. Uu. He said in a statement that his forces, in cooperation with Iraqi intelligence and security forces, carried out an air attack in the province of Al Anbar, Iraq, who killed the “world leader of ISIS #2, the head of global operations and the EMIR Delegate Committee, Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, Alias, Abu Khadah,” And another is the Operation of Isis “” is the other “is the other” is the Operation of ISIS. ” “

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, reacted saying that the “miserable life of Al-Rifai was finished.” (Getty images)

“As the EMIR of the most important Isis decision -making body, Abu Khadijah maintained responsibility for operations, logistics and planning carried out by ISIS worldwide, and directs a significant part of finance for the global organization of the group,” said Centcom.

Islamic/Iraq/Syria state: a masked soldier of the Islamic State poses the Isil banner somewhere in the deserts of Iraq or Syria. Isil Publicity Image, 2015. (History/Universal Images Group images through Getty Images)

After the strike, us and Iraqi forces He moved to the location of the strike and found dead Isis goals that used “unicidas” without exploiting and had multiple weapons, said Centcom.

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Syrian Foreign Minister Ashaybani Asaad, he left, speaks during a press conference with his Iraqi counterpart Foud Hussein after his meeting, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP)

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The US and Iraqi forces were able to identify al-Rifai using DNA collected in an anterior raid where it escaped by little.

“Abu Khadijah was one of the most important ISIS members throughout the global ISIS organization. We will continue killing terrorists and dismantling their organizations that threaten our homeland and allied personnel, ally and associated in the region and beyond,” said General Michael Erik Kurilla, commander in Centcom, in a statement.