Islamic State’s No. 2 Leader Killed in Airstrike, U.S. Says
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The second-in-command of Islamic State was killed by a U.S. airstrike on Aug. 18 while traveling in a vehicle near Mosul, Iraq, according to a White House statement.
Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, the senior deputy to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, “was a primary coordinator for moving large amounts of weapons, explosives, vehicles and people between Iraq and Syria,” National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said in the statement Friday.