ISIS leader killed in Libya

SANAA, Sept. 24 (YPA) – The spokesman for the “Libyan National Army” forces, Major General Ahmed Al-Mesmari, revealed the killing of the leader of “ISIS” organization in North Africa.

Al-Mesmari said that Abu Muadh al-Iraqi, which is the name of the leader, was among nine armed men killed during a raid in Sabha, but his identity was not immediately identified.

He pointed out that al-Iraqi entered Libya on September 12, 2014 with the takfiri Abdulaziz Al-Anbari with forged Libyan passports through Turkey, as Al-Anbari was assigned at the time as an emir of the organization in Libya, and Abu Abdullah as his assistant, on the direct assignment of the leader of the organization at the time, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.”Al-Mesmari said that Al-Iraqi became the leader of the terrorist organization in North Africa after the killing of Anbari by the Libyan army in the events of Derna in 2015.

He added that, “The investigation sources report that they obtained his name, which is Abdullah al-Rabai, who is from the Iraqi Kurds, pointing to the desperation of the terrorist elements that were With him in his defense for seven hours straight. “.