The United States has successfully carried out a military strike to kill a senior Islamic State leader.
The “unilateral” strike in northwest Syria, carried out Monday, killed Khalid ‘Aydd Ahmad al-Jabouri, CENTCOM head Gen. Erik Kurilla said in the statement.
The statement noted that al-Jabouri was a senior ISIS figure who “was responsible for planning ISIS attacks into Europe and developing the leadership” structure of ISIS in Turkey.
“ISIS continues to represent a threat to the region and beyond,” Kurilla said. “Though degraded, the group remains able to conduct operations within the region with a desire to strike beyond the Middle East.”
He added that the death of al-Jabouri will temporarily disrupt ISIS's ability to plot external attacks.
According to the CENTCOM statement, no civilians were injured or killed in the strike.
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