U.S. forces with help from Iraqi intelligence and security killed the No. 2 global ISIS leader, "one of the most important" of the entire organization, per U.S. Central Command.

In a statement, U.S. Central Command said that its forces, in coordination with Iraqi intelligence and security units, carried out an airstrike in Iraq's Al Anbar Province.

Baghdad - The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was eliminated in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with U.S.-led coalition forces, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani,