Senior ISIL commander killed in the Iraqi city of Hawijah

A senior commander of the Takfir group, the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has been killed by tribesmen in northern Iraq, a report says.

Al-Iraqiya TV said that the terrorist named Nasir Sabet was killed in the city of Hawijah on Friday.

The report also added that Iraqi warplanes targeted three oil tankers stolen by the Takfiri militants from a village south of the northern city of Kirkuk.

The report came as the army has launched successful attacks on the militants in Salahuddin’s neighboring province of Diyala and in Kirkuk Governorate.

The attack in Diyala targeted the militants in the Masuriyat al-Jabal area, northeast of the provincial capital Baquba.

The army campaign in Kirkuk involved airstrikes on the ISIL militants in Hawija, a city controlled by the militants near the provincial capital Kirkuk.

Iraqi army is pushing ahead with its offensive to flush Takfiri ISIL militants out of Tikrit. Soldiers, backed by tanks and helicopter gunships, have already taken control of Tikrit University.

Meanwhile, scores of terrorists have been killed in the army airstrikes on Mosul and Babylon.

More than one million Iraqis have fled their homes over the past month as the ISIL terrorists seized Mosul, Tikrit and other cities in the northwest areas.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has said Saudi Arabia and Qatar are responsible for the security crisis and growing terrorism in his country.