A leader of the extremist group Islamic State (IS), responsible for attacks in Europe, died on Tuesday during a US operation in Syria, the US military command for the Middle East (Centcom) announced.
Khaled Aydd Ahmad al-Jaburi was, among other things, “responsible for planning IS attacks in Europe,” he said in a statement.
Centcom stressed that the death of this official would “temporarily disrupt the organization’s ability to fuel attacks abroad.”
The US military command did not clarify whether the bombing took place in Syria, but specified that no civilians were killed or injured in the attack.
“IS continues to pose a threat to the region and beyond,” said Centcom chief general Mike Kurilla, quoted in the same note.
“Even when weakened, the group remains capable of conducting operations in the region, with the intention of attacking beyond the Middle East,” he said.
Since ISIL’s territorial defeat in Syria in 2019, several hundred US troops deployed in the northeast of the country have continued to fight suspected IS members alongside the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
In October 2019, the US announced the death of IS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi during a US operation in northwestern Syria.
Source: DN
