USA IS commander killed

baghdad - When air attacks on the western Iraqi city of Fallujah, the US has in recent days more than seventy warriors terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) slain, including the local commander Maher al-Bilawi. That said the spokesman for the US military in Iraq, Steve Warren, Friday.

The Iraqi army earlier this week with the support of US air strikes began an offensive to oust the Sunni extremists from the city. Fallujah, about seventy kilometers west of Baghdad, after the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the main stronghold of IS in Iraq. The extremists controlling the city since January 2014.