Islamic State group commander for Iraq killed, premier says

PHOTO CAPTION: Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service members provide security while conducting tactical movement to clear a training objective near Baghdad, Iraq, Feb. 5, 2019. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Sarah Zaler via U.S. Defense Visual Information Distribution Service)

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said on Tuesday that Islamic State's commander for Iraq had been killed in an operation in the Hamrin Mountains in northeast Iraq.

(Reporting by Nadine Awadalla and Nayera Abdallah; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

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