War on terror

ISIL leaders involved in Paris attack killed in precision strike in Syria

A coalition airstrike this month killed three top Islamic State leaders, including two terrorists involved in supporting the last year's Paris attacks that killed 130 people, the Pentagon announced Tuesday.

The men were killed in a "precision airstrike" conducted Dec. 4 in Raqqa, the Islamic State's de facto capital in Syria, a Pentagon statement said.

The two involved in facilitating the Nov. 13, 2015, attacks were Salah Gourman and Sammy Djedou, the Pentagon said. The pair were close associates of Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, an Islamic State leader in charge of planning terror attacks around the world.

The third Ieader killed in the strike, Walid Hamman, was a suicide attack planner convicted in absentia in Belgium for a terrorist plot disrupted in 2015, the Pentagon statement said.