On his Truth Social platform Friday night, President Trump wrote that "the fugitive leader of ISIS in Iraq was killed."

The Iraqi Prime Minister said that personnel of the country’s national intelligence service, working with coalition forces commanded by the United States, had killed the head of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria,

Iraq's Prime Minister and US President Donald Trump have applauded the death of Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rufayi, who was said to have been responsible for Islamic State's "foreign operations".