Pentagon Confirms ISIL Leader Killed in Syria Strike
US Department of Defense confirmed that Mahmoud al-Isawi, a Syria-based leader of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group was killed in an airstrike.
Isawi was killed by the US-led coalition forces in 2016, the US Department of Defense announced in a press release on Friday.
“A Syrian-based ISIL leader and facilitator, was struck and killed by a Coalition precision airstrike Dec[ember] 31, 2016, in Raqqa, Syria,” the release said.
According to the release, Al-Isawi was known to have facilitated trans-regional travel with the emir of ISIL Middle East attack network, Abd al-Basit al-Iraqi, who was killed in an a coalition airstrike on November 2, 2016.
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