The strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of the Iran-backed militia, Popular Mobilization Forces, which recently stormed the US embassy in Baghdad.
"The Area Commander and the other officers who supervised the brutalisation of our President and other workers in Owerri should be relieved of their office and stripped of their commission.
It is unclear why the Ukrainian authorities decided to speak publicly about the strike, but it would at least partly reflect the gravity of the episode. It follows an acknowledgment by the commander of Ukraine's armed forces, Gen.
Iran attacked Israel as a retaliation for a strike that killed an Iranian military commander in Damascus in early April. Tehran had accused Israel of carrying out the Damascus attack.
The Theatre Commander, Major General Ibrahim Attahiru re-issued the order while addressing over 2,000 special forces with code name "MSTs", mobile strike teams.
Overnight they took control of an Islamic Jihad commander's stronghold, it said, and also killed Hamas fighters inside a school where they found a large number of weapons.
Iran vowed to take revenge on the US following the assassination of Soleimani, the commander of Iran's Quds Force, the overseas arm of the elite Revolutionary Guards.
The IDF reported that an aerial strike in Gaza on Friday resulted in the elimination of a senior Hamas commander, they also successfully neutralized Hamas operatives and dismantled rocket launch sites, according to Fox News.
"We will retaliate against whoever is behind this aggression," Hashed commander Abu Alaa al-Walai wrote on X, formerly Twitter. "Those involved in this odious crime will pay the price."
On Monday, 7th of August the COAS visited 25 Task Force Brigade, 7 Division Nigerian Army, in Damboa where he was received and briefed by the Brigade Commander, Brigadier General Quadri.
On June 16, the Russian Defence Ministry said Al-Baghdadi was likely eliminated as a result of a Russian Aerospace Forces strike on a militant command post in the southern suburb of the city of Raqqa in late May.