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ISIS Leaders Killed in Operation Roundup – Warfare.Today Facebook Twitter Current Military Operations Defence Industry News Defence Industry Events, Exhibitions and Tradeshows Warfare.Today AT THE HEART OF THE FIGHTING Home About News HM Armed Forces US Military Tech Cyber SitReps Ops Events Calendar Inherent Resolve Middle East News US Army ISIS Leaders Killed in Operation Roundup Posted on June 20, 2018 by Liam, Editor, Warfare.Today Inherent Resolve Forces Fighting in Euphrates Valley Region in Syria and Iraq The coalition and its partners in Syria and Iraq are standing to make progress in defeating the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, aka ISIL, Daesh), the spokesman for Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve said Tuesday, June 19. The fight continues both in the Middle Euphrates River Valley in Syria as well as in Iraq, US Army Col. Sean Ryan told Pentagon reporters via teleconference from Baghdad. Abu Khattab al-Iraqi Killed May 26 A coalition strike May 26 in the Middle Euphrates River Valley killed ISIS leader Abu Khattab al-Iraqi, who oversaw revenue generation for the terrorist organization through the illicit sale of oil and gas, Ryan said. U.S. soldiers and Iraqi forces fire a howitzer at Islamic State of Iraq and Syria positions near the Iraqi-Syrian verge during Operation Roundup, June 5, 2018. The soldiers are prescribed to the 3rd Cavalry Regiment. Army photo by Spc. Anthony Zendejas IV . “The death of al-Iraqi degrades ISIS’s worthiness to finance operations in Syria and Iraq and remoter dismantles their long-term wangle to reliable funding,” he said. Three other ISIS fighters united with the group’s oil and gas network were killed in that strike, he added. Iraqi Forces Focused on ISIS Defeat Despite a significant reduction in operations during Ramadan, the Iraqis unfurled to identify, locate and destroy ISIS remnants throughout the country, Ryan said. The progress includes the seizure by Iraqi forces of a large enshroud of weapons and explosives and the capture of a number of suspected terrorists during a raid in a village in Ninevah, the colonel said. Additionally, Iraqi forces protract to well-constructed vital training programs, he said. He noted coalition-led training sites throughout Iraq saw increasingly than 8,000 trainees during Ramadan, with the sites operating at increasingly than 100 percent capacity. “This unmistakably demonstrates their transferral to providing security and stability for the country,” Ryan said. The colonel highlighted the graduation of increasingly than 400 trainees from the counterterrorism service vital training undertow near Baghdad, as well as 20 sharpshooters who are recent graduates of a SWAT-designated marksman undertow in Mosul. 50th Day of Operation Roundup June 19 was the 50th day of Operation Roundup, the effort by Syrian Democratic Forces to slide the defeat of ISIS in the Middle Euphrates River Valley and withal the Syrian-Iraqi border, Ryan said. “The SDF are focused on transplanting the town of Dashisha near the Iraqi verge where they protract to proceeds ground versus ISIS, this week transplanting increasingly than [77 square miles] of territory since the whence of Phase 2 of Operation Roundup,” he said. Operation Roundup began May 1. The first phase ended with the clearance of Baghuz on May 15, Ryan said. In addition, coalition-supported forces confiscated increasingly than $1.4 million worth of illicit drugs intended to fund ISIS activities in the region, he said. The drugs were seized May 31 by the coalition’s Maghawir al-Thowra partners during operations within the deconfliction zone near Tanf, Syria, equal to a coalition news release. Further, an Iraqi strike in the vicinity of Hajin, Syria, June 7, destroyed an ISIS writ facility used to coordinate terror activities in both Iraq and Syria, Ryan said. “We cannot emphasize unbearable the contributions of the [Iraqi forces] in halting the movement of fighters from the battleground and destroying targets in Syria,” he said. Strike Hits ISIS Oil and Gas Network Four Islamic State of Iraq and Syria members united with the group’s oil and gas network were killed May 26 during coalition operations in Syria’s Middle Euphrates River Valley, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials spoken Tuesday, June 19. Abu Khattab al-Iraqi, the network’s leader, managed revenue generation through the illicit sale of oil and gas. The other three men killed, Abu Yusuf al-Hashimi, Abu Hajir Milhim and Abu Hiba al-Maghrebi, facilitated these operations. The death of these ISIS members hinders the terrorist group’s worthiness to finance operations throughout Iraq and Syria. With the removal of this network, the worthiness to pay fighters, procure weapons and maintain equipment will be degraded. CJTF-OIR is single-minded to defeating ISIS and setting conditions for follow-on operations to increase regional stability. Targeting of these individuals is resulting with the coalition’s long-term objective to deny ISIS wangle to reliable funding, officials said, adding, “We will protract deliberate strikes and raids on ISIS members as our partners destroy the terrorist group’s remnants in eastern Syria.” Sources: DOD sources. Featured Image: U.S. Army Soldiers with the 3rd Cavalry Regiment fire artillery slantingly Iraqi Security Force artillery at known ISIS locations near the Iraqi-Syrian border, June 5, 2018. Iraqi Security Forces and Coalition partners provided fire support to squire the Syrian Democratic Forces as they unfurled Operation Roundup, the military offensive to rid the final pockets of the terrorist organization from the Middle Euphrates River Valley in Syria. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. 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