The U.S. Central Command on Friday (March 14) said it had conducted an airstrike in cooperation with Iraq that killed the top ISIS leader in that country, Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, known as “Abu Khadijah”, and one other ISIS operative.

After the strike, which the U.S. military said happened on Thursday (March 13), a DNA test on the deceased's remains confirmed Abu Khadijah had been killed, the Central Command said.

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