On his Truth Social platform Friday night, President Trump wrote that "the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed."

A top ISIS leader has been killed, according to the U.S. Central Command. U.S. and Iraqi forces carried out what the U.S. calls a precision airstrike in Iraq to take out the number two leader of ISIS known as Abu Khadija.

US President Donald Trump has confirmed the death of Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, the leader of the Islamic State, ISIS, in Iraq and Syria. On Friday, Iraq’s prime minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani announced that al-Rifai was killed in an operation by both US forces and members of the Iraqi intelligence service.