The Pentagon has confirmed that a US airstrike killed IS leader and spokesman Abu Mohamed al-Adnani in northern Syria in August.
The Pentagon has confirmed that a US airstrike killed IS leader and spokesman Abu Mohamed al-Adnani in northern Syria in August.
“The strike near Al Bab, Syria, removes from the battlefield ISIL’s chief propagandist, recruiter and architect of external terrorist operations,” Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said on Monday, using an acronym for the ISIS.
“It is one in a series of successful strikes against ISIL leaders, including those responsible for finances and military planning, that make it harder for the group to operate.” The August 30 air strike was conducted by a Predator drone, which fired a Hellfire missile at the car Adnani was travelling in.
Officials say Adnani was the main spokesman for ISIS, and he had played a major role during some of the group’s most high-profile attacks over the past year, including in Paris, at the Brussels and Istanbul airports, at a cafe in Bangladesh, as well as the downing of a Russian airliner in the Sinai and suicide bombings at a rally in Ankara.
