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ISIS says spokesman killed in Syria

BEIRUT -- ISIS's spokesman and chief strategist, who laid out the blueprint for the extremist group's attacks against the West, has been killed while overseeing operations in northern Syria, the group announced Tuesday.

 

The ISIS-run Aamaq news agency said Abu Muhammed al-Adnani was "martyred while surveying the operations to repel the military campaigns in Aleppo," and vowed to avenge his death. It did not provide any further details on when or how he died.

 

If confirmed, it would be a major blow to the extremist group, which has been on the retreat in Syria and Iraq, where the borders of its self-declared Islamic caliphate have been steadily eroded in recent months.

   

In Washington, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook confirmed that a US airstrike on Tuesday targeted al-Adnani in the Syrian city of al-Bab, which is northeast of Aleppo.

 

"We are still assessing the results of the strike, but Al-Adnani's removal from the battlefield would mark another significant blow to (ISIS)," Cook said.

 

Aamaq vowed revenge against the "filthy cowards in the sect of disbelief." It said a generation raised in ISIS-held territory would avenge al-Adnani's death.

 


פרסום ראשון: 08.31.16, 07:54