Three Daesh leaders killed in Iraq, says US

WASHINGTON

The U.S.-led anti-Daesh coalition killed three militant leaders in Iraq late last month, a spokesman said Thursday.

Col. Steve Warren said airstrikes killed Daesh's "finance minister" Abu Salah; a senior leader named Abu Maryam who oversaw the group’s extortion network and Abu Rahman al-Tunisi, an executive officer who coordinated the transfer of information, people and weapons.

Salah was one of the most senior and experienced members of the militant group's financial network and a former al-Qaeda member, according to Warren.

"Salah was the third member of the finance network that we have killed," he said. "Killing him and his predecessors exhausts the knowledge and talent needed to coordinate funding within the organization."

Warren said Abu Maryam was also the third senior extortionist the coalition has killed but did provide names of the former leaders.

The agency previously announced several strikes on the group’s leadership.