Aerial strike: U.S. confirms Da’ish Libya hit

The US has announced it has killed two senior leaders of two separate armed groups in Africa during recent air strikes.

In another statement issued on Monday, Cook confirmed that Abu Nabil, also known as Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al Zubaydi, an Iraqi national who was a longtime al-Qaida operative and the senior IS leader in Libya, was killed in a USA strike on November 13.

This morning, Pentagon Press Operations Director Navy Capt. Jeff Davis told reporters the airstrikes this weekend in Syria’s Darazor province that hit a Syrian army position did not result from US operations.

The confirmation of Nabil’s death, first reported last month, comes as President Barack Obama promised to destroy Daesh in a live broadcast to the nation from the Oval Office.

Nabil may have been the spokesman in the video of the February 2015 mass killings of Coptic Christians in Libya.

This is an important step forward in the fight against al-Shabaab, and the United States will continue to use the tools at our disposal – financial, diplomatic, intelligence and military – to dismantle al-Shabaab and other terrorist groups who threaten United States, interests and persons.

Davis said two other al-Shabaab-affiliated associates were also killed in the strike, but that it specifically targeted Santier.

Sandhere was also known as “Ukash”. He was said to have given himself up to U.S. authorities as they changed allegiance from al-Qaeda to Daesh.

Britain has been carrying out airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria over the last week after Parliament voted to extend military action from Iraq.