Washington: The United States has confirmed that the 'finance chief' of terror outfit Islamic State, Abu Saleh has been killed in an airstrike by the US-led coalition.
US military spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said in a videoconference from Baghdad, calling him "one of the most senior and experienced members" of the group's financial network.
Along with Saleh, coalition airstrikes also killed Aby Maryam, the “ISIL enforcer and senior leader of their extortion network,” and Abu Rahman al-Tunisi, who was coordinating transfer of information, people and weapons, Warren said.
All three were killed in late November in the vicinity of Tal Afar, Iraq without the opportunity to capture them, Warren added.
Brett McGurk, the US government's envoy for the anti-IS fight, stated that Abu Saleh was killed along with two associates “as part of [a] coalition campaign to destroy ISIL's financial infrastructure.”
The US-led coalition has been targeting IS leaders in Syria and Iraq with air strikes to try to pick apart its command structure.
