Coalition airstrike takes out evil ISIS propaganda chief as terror group's losses mount
ISIS propaganda chief Wa'il Adil Hasan Salman al-Fayad has been killed in a coalition air strike.
US airstrike/ISIS fighter
The jihadist, also known as Dr Wa’il, was responsible for the gruesome videos showing atrocities like the barbaric torture and murders carried out by member of the bloodthirsty terrorist group.
Pentagon chiefs said he had been located at his hideout near the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa, Syria, and eliminated in a successful airstrike.
Despite suffering a series of devastating losses in recent months, ISIS still controls parts of Iraq and Syria and has used modern media technology to broadcast the beheadings of journalists and aid workers it has carried out over the past few years.
Coalition forces have launched a number of successful airstrikes against ISIS targets
Wa'il oversaw ISIS’s production of terrorist propaganda videos showing torture and executions
The Pentagon said Wa'il was minister of information and prominent member of ISIS’s leadership group the Senior Shura Council.
A US Defense Department official said he was targeted by the air strike while riding a motorbike outside his house.
Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said: ”Wa'il oversaw ISIS’s production of terrorist propaganda videos showing torture and executions.
"He was a close associate of Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, the ISIS spokesman and leader for plotting and inspiring external terror attacks."
ISIS fighters in Syria
ISIS announced Adnani was killed in a US air strike in Syria on August 30 which was later confirmed by the Pentagon.
The brutal terror group’s commanders have been left reeling after several senior officials were taken out by US special forces snipers in and around the districts of Qayyarah, Sharqat and Bashiqa in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
A coalition soldier takes up position near the northeastern Syrian town of Jarablus
Its bases in the city have been decimated by US-led airstrikes and targeted assassinations and many fighters have been removed from the streets over fears of imminent ground attacks.
US Defence Department bosses have acknowledged special operations forces are also helping Turkish and Syrian opposition forces battling ISIS in and around the Syrian border near al-Rai and the town of Jarablus further east.