Four members of the Islamic State, including two senior leaders, were killed in an airstrike carried out by Iraqi aircraft in the Hamrin Mountains in eastern Iraq, security officials said on Saturday.
Nobody else was killed but one officer was injured. The IslamicStateof Iraqand the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack, the first time it took credit for a U.S.-based attack ...
The IslamicState is a Sunni Muslim insurgent group that traces its origins to al-Qaida in Iraq, which nearly pushed Iraq into civil war before it was defeated by local militias and U.S.