The Islamic State commander who acted as the militant group’s governor in Mosul is reported to have been killed in a coalition airstrike on the northern Iraqi city.
Sources in the city, which has been controlled by Isis since they overran it in June, said that Radawan Taleb al-Hamdouni was killed with his driver when their car was hit in a strike on Wednesday afternoon.
His funeral was held the same day, attracting large numbers of Isis fighters and supporters, carrying the black flags of the hardline group.
The attack targeting Hamdouni was the latest in a series of airstrikes on Isis personnel and targets in Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, which fell to the group after the collapse of Iraqi army units.
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