DoD Reveals Deaths Of 2 Senior Al-Qaida Operatives In Syria

January 20 2017

Syria

The Pentagon has announced that recent U.S. airstrikes in Syria killed two senior Al-Qaida operatives.

Mohammad Habib Boussadoun al-Tunisi, an external operations leader for the group, was killed in a strike on Jan. 17 near Idlib, said a Pentagon spokesman on Thursday.

Al-Tunisi, a Tunisian national, had been involved in plots to attack Western targets, the spokesman said.

In addition, Abd al-Jalil al-Muslimi, a Tunisian Al-Qaida facilitator, was killed in a Jan. 12...

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