Pentagon confirms Daesh leader Mahmud al-Isawi killed in Syria

  07 January 2017    Read: 2882
Pentagon confirms Daesh leader Mahmud al-Isawi killed in Syria
Mahmud al-Isawi, a Syria-based leader of the Islamic State [Daesh] terror group, was killed by the US-led coalition forces in 2016, the US Department of Defense announced in a press release on Friday.
"A Syrian-based ISIL [Islamic State] leader and facilitator, was struck and killed by a Coalition precision airstrike Dec[ember] 31, 2016, in Raqqa, Syria," the release said.

According to the release, Al-Isawi was known to have facilitated trans-regional travel with the emir of Daesh Middle East attack network, Abd al-Basit al-Iraqi, who was killed in an a coalition airstrike on November 2, 2016. Mahmud al-Isawi was also a long-standing Daesh member who supported the organization`s media and intelligence structure in Fallujah before relocating to Raqqa.

The Pentagon reaffirmed in the release its commitment to tracking and eliminating Daesh terrorists wherever they are hiding.

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