ISIS Syria Chief Killed In US Drone Strike: Pentagon

Washington: The chief of the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria was killed Tuesday in a US drone strike, the Pentagon stated. Maher al-Agal was killed whereas using a motorbike close to Jindayris in Syria, and certainly one of his prime aides was severely injured, Pentagon Central Command spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Dave Eastburn instructed AFP. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed that Agal was killed in a drone strike. The Syrian Civil Protection Drive stated one particular person was killed and one other injured in a strike that focused a motorbike exterior Aleppo, however didn't establish the victims. There was little data accessible about Agal, whom the Observatory known as the Islamic State governor for the Levant. The strike got here 5 months after a nighttime US raid within the city of Atme in northern Syria led to the dying of the general Islamic State chief, Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi. US officers stated Qurashi died when he detonated a bomb to keep away from seize. (Apart from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is printed from a syndicated feed.)