A senior ISIS commander has been killed in the battle for Mosul, the terror group's last major stronghold in Iraq, Iraqi military intelligence sources tell CNN.
Mahmoud Shukri al Nuaimi, a senior figure in the militant setup who also is known as Sheikh Faris,
was killed Tuesday in an Iraqi-led coalition airstrike in western Mosul, the sources said.
ISIS confirmed his death in a video montage, referring to him as "the martyr of the battle."
The Iraqi sources said Nuaimi was formerly a high-ranking intelligence officer in Saddam Hussein's
intelligence services, which CNN cannot independently confirm.
The news comes as the UN human rights office reported new details of alleged atrocities by ISIS fighters in Mosul this week as the coalition tries to retake the city, including the deaths of at least 60 civilians.
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