Airstrike kills 2 Islamic State commanders near Mosul

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) – The Pentagon says that a U.S.-led coalition airstrike killed two senior Islamic State commanders last Saturday in northern Iraq, including a fighter considered to be the group’s deputy minister of war.
Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook says the strike killed Basim Muhammad Ahmad Sultan al-Bajari and a lower level commander, Hatim Talib al-Hamduni.
Cook says Al-Bajari was a former member of al-Qaida who oversaw the Islamic State’s fight in June 2014 to