US strike kills senior ISIS leader who planned Europe attacks, says military

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US strike in Syria kills planner of IS Europe attacks: military

killed more than 30 people. In August 2017, attacks claimed by ISIS in Barcelona and elsewhere in Spain killed 16 people.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor of the more than decade-old conflict in Syria, said Jabouri was killed in a US drone strike in the Idlib region in the north-west, an area run by Islamists.

It said he was killed while speaking on the telephone as he walked in the open near where he was staying. The observatory said that Jabouri, who was posing as a Syrian, had sought refuge in the area some 10 days ago. The Centcom chief said that ISIS, despite no longer controlling any territory in either Syria or Iraq, “continues to represent a threat to the region and beyond”.Some 900 US troops remain in Syria, most in the Kurdish-administered north-east, as part of a US-led coalition battling remnants of ISIS, who remain active in both Syria and neighbouring Iraq, operating out of hideouts in desert and mountain areas.in an operation in north-western Syria.

His two successors have also been killed: the first during a US operation in north-western Syria, and the second in an operation by former Syrian rebels in the country’s south.

 

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