US drone strike kills Islamic State Syria chief: Pentagon
A boy looks at a building where US coalition forces conducted an overnight airborne operation to capture an Islamic State group bombmaker, in the village of Hmeirah in the north of Syria’s Aleppo province on June 16, 2022.
Washington – The leader of the Islamic State militant group in Syria was killed Tuesday in a US drone strike, the Pentagon said.
Maher al-Agal was killed while riding a motorcycle near Jindayris in Syria, and one of his top aides was seriously injured, Pentagon Central Command spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Dave Eastburn told AFP.