Senior Islamic State leader killed in Iraq, Trump says his 'miserable life was terminated'

The person of the Islamic State successful Iraq and Syria has been killed, Iraq's premier curate announced connected Friday.

Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, oregon "Abu Khadija," was killed successful an cognition by members of the Iraqi nationalist quality work on with U.S.-led conjugation forces, Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said successful a statement.

The premier curate described al-Rifai arsenic "one of the astir unsafe terrorists successful Iraq and the world."

U.S. President Donald Trump reacted to the quality connected his societal media level Truth Social, saying al-Rifai's "miserable beingness was terminated."

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Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani described al-Rifai arsenic "one of the astir unsafe terrorists successful Iraq and the world." (AP)

"Today the fugitive person of ISIS successful Iraq was killed," Trump wrote Friday night. "He was relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters. His miserable beingness was terminated, on with different subordinate of ISIS, successful coordination with the Iraqi Government and the Kurdish Regional Government."

"PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!" the president added.

U.S. Central Command said successful a connection that its forces, successful practice with Iraqi Intelligence and information forces, conducted an airstrike successful Al Anbar Province, Iraq, that killed the "Global ISIS #2 leader, Chief of Global Operations and the Delegated Committee Emir – Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, alias 'Abu Khadijah,' and 1 different ISIS operative."

U.S. President Donald Trump reacted by saying al-Rifai's "miserable beingness was terminated." (Getty Images)

"As the Emir of ISIS’ astir elder decision-making body, Abu Khadijah maintained work for operations, logistics, and readying conducted by ISIS globally, and directs a important information of concern for the group’s planetary organization," CENTCOM said.

Islamic State/Iraq/Syria: A masked Islamic State worker poses holding the ISIL banner determination successful the deserts of Iraq oregon Syria. ISIL publicity image, 2015.  (Pictures from History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

After the strike, U.S. and Iraqi forces moved to the determination of the onslaught and recovered some dormant ISIS targets who were each wearing unexploded "suicide vests" and who had aggregate weapons, CENTCOM said.

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Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaybani, left, speaks during a quality league with his Iraqi counterpart Fouad Hussein pursuing their meeting, successful Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March14, 2025. (AP)

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U.S. and Iraqi forces were capable to place al-Rifai utilizing DNA collected successful a erstwhile raid wherever helium narrowly escaped.

"Abu Khadijah was 1 of the astir important ISIS members successful the full planetary ISIS organization. We volition proceed to termination terrorists and dismantle their organizations that endanger our homeland and U.S., allied and spouse unit successful the portion and beyond," Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, commandant astatine CENTCOM, said successful a statement.