Several ISIL Commanders Killed in Iraqi Airstrike West of Mosul

The Iraqi Army aircraft targeted a key command post of ISIL in the town of Tal Afar, killing six senior commanders, including a key financial official of the terrorist group, media sources said.

The Arabic language Elam al-Harbi reported that the Iraqi aircraft pounded a command post of ISIL known as Beit al-Maal (house of treasury) in al-Mo’alemin neighborhood in Tal Afar, killing six commanders, including the Tunisian Chief of Beit al-Maal’s salary committees, Abu Tabarak who was also called Abu Maryam.

According to the report, Abu Tabarak was also in charge of ISIL’s economic affairs and bank accounts.

In the meantime, the Turkish military commander of Tal Afar, the chief of Beit al-Maal in Jazeera County in Nineveh province and the terrorist group’s man in charge of transferring Mohajereen (immigrants) were all killed in the air raid, the al-Harbi report added.

 Lt. Gen. Abdul-Amir Yarallah, commander of the Nineveh operations, said in a statement earlier today that the Iraqi forces recaptured a district in Western Mosul from ISIL militants and stormed another one on their way towards Central Mosul’s Old City.

The army’s elite Counter-Terrorism Forces recaptured al-Sumoud district before storming the nearby al-Mansour, Lt. Gen. Yarallah said, Iraqi News reported.

Old Mosul is a major target for the Iraqi forces seeking to clear the Western side of the city from militants. It is home of a government compound, and the recapture of which is believed to be highly decisive in ending the campaign in the government forces’ favor.

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