Abu Ayman al-Iraqi

Adnan Latif Hamid al-Sweidawi al-Dulaimi (عدنان لطيف حامد السويداوي الدليمي, ‘Adnān Laṭīf Ḥāmid as-Suwaydāwī al-Dulaymī), also known by his nom de guerre as Abu Ayman al-Iraqi (أبو أيمن العراقي, Abū Ayman al-‘Irāqī), was a top commander in the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and the rumored head of its Military Council following the death of Abu Abdulrahman al-Bilawi.

Biography
al-Sweidawi belonged to the Al-bu Swda clan of the Dulaim, the largest tribe in the Iraqi Anbar Province.

al-Sweidawi previously served under the Ba'athist regime of Saddam Hussein as a colonel in the Iraqi Army. He also operated in Iraq's Air Defense Intelligence. Many other ISIS commanders were former officers during the reign of Saddam Hussein such as Haji Bakr, Abu Ahmad al-Alwani, Abu Abdulrahman al-Bilawi, Abu Muslim al-Turkmani and Abu Ali al-Anbari.

In 2007, he was detained for three years by U.S forces in Iraq, presumably at Camp Bucca. Following his release in 2010, he re-located to Syria where, following the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War, he coordinated ISIS fighters in the cities of Idlib and Aleppo as well as the mountains of Lattakia, as a senior ISIS commander. The Syrian Armed Opposition accused al-Iraqi of being responsible for the assassinations of FSA and opposition figures in Latakia. Following the outbreak of fighting with other Syrian rebel groups in early 2014, al-Iraqi and his men redeployed to ISIS strongholds in eastern Syria.

Despite his senior position within the ISIS hierarchy, very little is known about al-Iraqi. He has been referred to as a "shadowy persona".

Late on 7 November 2014, a US airstrike targeted a meeting of top ISIS leaders in Mosul, Iraq, killing 20 ISIS militants, including Abu Ayman al-Iraqi. He was replaced by ISIS War Minister Abu Suleiman al-Naser as ISIS's Military Chief.