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ISIS Senior Leader, Wa’il Al-Fayad Killed In Airstrike

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By Farouk Mohammed
Published: September 17, 2016
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Dr Wa’il al-Fayad, another senior leader of the Islamic State(ISIS) has been killed, days after the Islamic State lost its spokesman, Abu Mohammad al-Adnani in an air strike.

Wa’il al-Fayad  as the extreme group’s “minister of information,” oversaw the group’s production of torture and execution videos.

He was  killed in an airstrike in Syria, Pentagon said Friday.

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“On September 7, coalition forces conducted a precision strike near Raqqah, Syria, that targeted and killed ‘Dr. Wa’il,’ also known as Wa’il Adil Hasan Salman al-Fayad, one of ISIL’s most senior leaders,” Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said in a statement.

ISIL is known as IS in Syria and Iraq.

“He operated as the minister of information for the terror organization and was a prominent member of its Senior Shura Council — ISIL’s leadership group,” Cook said.

Wa’il was killed by a drone targeting his home in Raqqah, IS’s de facto capital in Syria, according to an ABC news report, citing an anonymous U.S. official as source.

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The confirmed death of “Dr. Wa’il” is the second strike in the past two weeks targeting a senior ISIS leader involved in ISIS’s media operation.

Earlier this week, Pentagon confirmed that the group’s spokesman al-Adnani was killed by an airstrike on Aug. 30 as he rode in a vehicle near the Syrian town of al-Bab.

Wa’il was a close associate of al-Adnani, said Cook.

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