Pentagon Confirms Death Of French Al-Qaida Explosives Expert

The U.S. Dept. of Defense has announced that a French citizen who joined forces with Al-Qaida in Syria was killed in a U.S.-led coalition airstrike in July, reports McClatchy Newspapers.

David Drugeon converted to Islam in his teens after being radicalized in French and Egyptian mosques, according to a Pentagon spokesman on Tuesday.

The jihadist was killed on July 5 in an airstrike near Aleppo in northwest Syria, according to the DoD. Drugeon had survived two previous strikes...