US-led coalition forces have conducted an airstrike in the Iraqi city of Mosul, resulting in the deaths of two senior military commanders of Daesh, the US Department of Defense spokesman Peter Cook said.
"The precision strike killed the Daesh deputy minister of war, Basim Muhammad Ahmad Sultan al-Bajari, and the Daesh military commander in Mosul, Hatim Talib al-Hamduni," Sputnik cited the statement as saying.
Al-Bajari was an experienced terrorist, a former member of al-Qaeda who brought his military skills into the Islamic State, Al-Hamduni was a Daesh military commander in Mosul and the head of military police for the surrounding Ninawa province, the statement added.
