Coalition airstrikes led by the U.S. killed 10 senior ISIL leaders in December, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren said this week.
The leaders were Charaffe al Mouadan, Rawand Dilsher Taher, Khalil Ahmad Ali al-Wais, Abu Anas, Yunis Khalash, Mithaq Najim, Siful Haque Sujan, Akram Muhammad Sa'ad Faris, Abdel Kader Hakim and Tashin al-Hayali.
Warren said Mouadan was "planning additional attacks against the West" and had connections to the leader of the cell that carried out the attacks in Paris in November. Mouadan was killed on Dec. 24.
Taher and al-Wais, also known as Abu Wadhad, were killed Dec. 7. Taher handled money and equipment transfers. Abu Wadhad was the ISIL emir of Kirkuk province in Iraq. The deputy emir of Kirkuk, Najim, was killed Dec. 9.
Killed Dec. 8 near Kirkuk, Anas was an ISIL bomb cell facilitator.
Khalash was also known as Abu Jawdat and was the deputy financial emir in Mosul. Khalash was killed Dec. 9.
Sujan was a computer systems engineer from the United Kingdom who aided ISIL hacking efforts, technology and weapons development. Sujan was killed Dec. 10 near Raqqah, Syria.
An ISIL commander and executioner, Faris was killed Dec. 12.
Hakim had connections in Europe and links to the Paris attacks; he also was part of ISIL's external operations group. He was killed Dec. 26 in Mosul, Iraq.
An external operations facilitator, al-Hayali was killed Dec. 27 near Mosul.
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