The Telegraph: I raq said Saturday it had killed 45 jihadists from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil), including senior members, in an air strike in eastern Syria.
Iraqi F-16 fighter jets carried out a “successful strike targeting a meeting of Daesh (Isil) leaders” on Friday in the Hajin region, in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, a military statement said.
Among those killed, it said, were a senior member of the jihadists’ “ministry of war”, his deputy, a local commander and a media official.
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