US President Donald Trump announced the news on social media, stating, "Today the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed. He was relentlessly hunted down by our intrepid warfighters."

The Iraqi Prime Minister said that personnel of the country’s national intelligence service, working with coalition forces commanded by the United States, had killed the head of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria,

Iraqi and US-led coalition forces kill ISIS deputy caliph in Iraq, strengthening partnership with Syria to combat terrorism.