BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi Prime Minister Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has said that the head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was killed in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, or “Abu Khadija,” was “one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world,” the statement said. The operation comes at a time when Iraqi officials are anxious about an IS resurgence in the wake of the fall of former President Bashar Assad in Syria. Also on Friday, Syrian interim Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shibani traveled to Baghdad and met with his Iraqi counterpart.
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