Three senior leaders in the terrorist group operating in Iraq and Syria, ISIL, were killed in US strikes on Iraq, CNN reported.

Three senior leaders in the terrorist group operating in Iraq and Syria, ISIL, were killed in US strikes on Iraq, CNN reported.

The channel quoted a senior US military official as saying that the raids, which took place earlier in November, killed two top-level and one mid-level ISIL leaders.

“Haji Mutazz was Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's deputy in Iraq; Abd al Basit was his military emir in Iraq; and Radwan Talib was his Mosul emir. Their deaths resulted from multiple strikes going back to mid-November -- it has taken until now to determine conclusively they were killed,” CNN reported.

Earlier on Thursday, Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said that since mid-November multiple ISIL leaders were killed in US strikes.

"I can confirm that since mid-November, targeted coalition airstrikes successfully killed multiple senior and mid-level leaders within the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,” Kirby said in a statement.

"We believe that the loss of these key leaders degrades ISIL's ability to command and control current operations against Iraqi Security Forces, including Kurdish and other local forces in Iraq," he added.