Iraqi-led Attacks Kill Seven ISIS Operatives, US Centcom Says

A member of the Iraqi security forces in Karbala. (AFP file photo)
A member of the Iraqi security forces in Karbala. (AFP file photo)
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Iraqi-led Attacks Kill Seven ISIS Operatives, US Centcom Says

A member of the Iraqi security forces in Karbala. (AFP file photo)
A member of the Iraqi security forces in Karbala. (AFP file photo)

Iraqi-led strikes and raids killed at least seven ISIS operatives in Iraq, US Central Command said on Wednesday, a day after Baghdad reported the militant group's commander for Iraq had been killed in a military operation.

A Centcom statement did not identify the operatives but said the attacks were launched against multiple ISIS targets including senior leaders.

Two US military personnel were wounded in the operations and were in stable condition, Centcom said, AFP reported.

The Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) provided technical support and intelligence that enabled the raids, it said.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said on Tuesday that the ISIS commander for Iraq had been killed in an operation in Iraq's Hamrin Mountains.

A US-led coalition's military mission in Iraq will end by next September and there will be a transition to bilateral security partnerships, the US and Iraq said last month.



Lebanon Says Five Dead in Israeli Strike on Tyre City Center

A man walks on the rubble of a damaged building targeted by an Israeli military strike on 23 October, in Tyre, Lebanon, 24 October 2024. EPA/STRINGER
A man walks on the rubble of a damaged building targeted by an Israeli military strike on 23 October, in Tyre, Lebanon, 24 October 2024. EPA/STRINGER
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Lebanon Says Five Dead in Israeli Strike on Tyre City Center

A man walks on the rubble of a damaged building targeted by an Israeli military strike on 23 October, in Tyre, Lebanon, 24 October 2024. EPA/STRINGER
A man walks on the rubble of a damaged building targeted by an Israeli military strike on 23 October, in Tyre, Lebanon, 24 October 2024. EPA/STRINGER

Lebanon's health ministry said Israel struck the southern city of Tyre on Monday, killing at least five people and wounding 10 others.
An "Israeli enemy strike this morning on a building" in the center of the coastal city "led to a provisional toll of five dead and 10 wounded", a health ministry statement said.
It added that "work is ongoing to remove the rubble".
An AFP video journalist saw emergency personnel rush a survivor to an ambulance on a stretcher, while other rescuers worked to put out a heavily smoldering fire at the site, where a residential apartment block had collapsed like a pancake.
Tyre, an ancient coastal city which boasts a UNESCO World Heritage site, was subjected to heavy Israeli strikes last week, leaving swathes of the center in ruins.
Israel last month escalated air strikes on Hezbollah strongholds and sent ground forces into Lebanon, following a year of cross-border exchanges of fire with the Iran-backed group over the Gaza war.