US says it killed top ISIS official in Syria

U.S. forces on Tuesday killed a senior ISIS official in Syria, U.S. Central Command (Centcom) announced in a statement Thursday.

The “successful raid” in northern Syria targeted an unnamed senior ISIS member who also served as a “key financier who planned attacks in Syria and Iraq,” according to the Centcom statement.

Centcom said the senior ISIS member had relationships in the region, “posing a direct threat to U.S. and Coalition forces and the new Syrian Government.”

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