The death is a major blow for the militant group as they continue to suffer losses in Iraq and Syria.
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Meanwhile, Turkey on Wednesday denied agreeing to a US-brokered truce with Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria, saying it would not compromise with a “terrorist” group a week into an unprecedented cross-border offensive.
The Defense Department drone strike was conducted with help from American special operations forces working with the Central Intelligence Agency, the U.S. official said.
A U.S. defense official has said the Islamic State group’s spokesman Abu Mohamed al-Adnani who was killed in Syria recently played a major role in the Dhaka cafe attack, according to AFP news agency on Wednesday.
If confirmed, the assassination of Adnani will mark one of the most critical and important attacks on ISIS and its leadership in Syria since Russian Federation commenced its military intervention in September 2015.
A powerful orator, he went on to become the voice of IS.
He was also reported to have been involved in organising a series of high-profile ISIL attacks overseas that killed hundreds, including in Paris, Brussels and Istanbul.
Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Daesh (ISIS)’s spokesman, was killed in Aleppo yesterday, Daesh media reported.
(VERO BEACH, FL) Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Wednesday that Russian air strikes in Syria had killed one of Islamic State’s most prominent leaders, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani.
“Al-Adnani’s removal from the battlefield would mark another significant blow to ISIL”, Cook said, using an alternate acronym ISIS.
The militant was described as the second most senior IS leader after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
ISIS said that Adnani was killed in the Aleppo province, and the US said it had targeted him in an area near by the major battleground city. It said a generation raised in IS-held territory would avenge al-Adnani’s death.
Two American officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence, said a United States military drone had hit a vehicle Mr. Adnani was thought to be traveling in, following a close collaboration between the Central Intelligence Agency and Special Operations forces to track him.
Russian Federation intervened directly in the war in Syria last September, sending warplanes to back the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
“Among those terrorists, according to the information confirmed through several intelligence channels, there was the military leader Abu Mohammad al-Adnani known as the spokesperson of [ISIS]”, the statement reads.
US, Russia claim credit as Daesh spokesman killed in Syria was posted in World of TheNews International – https://www.thenews.com.pk on August 31, 2016 and was last updated on August 31, 2016.
The Russians who spoke with the U.S.at that time were not aware of the Syrians’ operations, a Pentagon spokesman says.
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“That’s a joke”, the official said.
