In the air strikes inflicted on the positions of the “Islamic state” (IG banned in Russia) in the Western part of the Iraqi Mosul, killing several foreign technicians, who collaborated with the terrorists. This was reported in the Iraqi Ministry of defense, reports Iraqi News.
One of the victims was an aeronautical engineer, known as Abu Mohamed al-Rusi (Abu Mohamed al-Rusi). According to the Iraqi military, he is of Russian origin.
Also in the bombardment killed a Tunisian-French specialist in automation Abu Omar al-Faransi (Abu Omar al-Faransi), a former employee of German auto giant Mercedes. The third victim — a certain Abu Aesha (Aesha Abu), engaged in the modernisation of the weapons of the militants.
Attack on Western Mosul began on 19 February. A month earlier, the Iraqi military completely liberated the Eastern part of the city, which is the unofficial capital of ISIS in Iraq.
In October 2014, the terrorists have captured three Syrian fighter supposedly the MiG-21 and MiG-23, and began to fly them. The control of the Islamists had trained had joined the Iraqi pilots. In the same month the Syrian air force reported the destruction of two of the hijacked aircraft, information about the fate of the third battle.