Airstrike Kills 40 IS Fighters

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A Russian air strike has killed about 40 Islamic State fighters, including four senior commanders, near the eastern Syrian city of Deir el-Zour, Russia’s defense ministry said Friday.

The strike, carried out by Su-34 fighter-bombers and Su-35 fighters, came after an intelligence report Sept. 5 showed that top Islamic State commanders were meeting at a secret underground command post in the vicinity of Deir el-Zour, the ministry said on its Facebook page.

Among those killed was Abu Muhammad al-Shimali, who oversees foreign fighters at IS, it said.

The defense ministry also said it had evidence that Gulmurod Khalimov, Islamic State’s “minister of war,” was present at the meeting in the bunker and had been fatally wounded in the strike and evacuated to the al-Muhasan area, 20 km (13 miles) southeast of Deir el-Zour.