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US Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley confirms that two men were taken prisoner during the raid on Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria. SOUNDBITE
File video website purports to show the reclusive leader of the militant Islamic State group in what is said to be the Iraqi city of Mosul. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
The Pentagon confirmed on Tuesday that the leader of al-Qaeda splinter organization the Khorasan group was killed earlier this month, Reuters reported.Muhsin al-Fadhli, part of the terrorist group Khorasan, was traveling on July 8 near Sarmada, a town in northwestern Syria close to the Turkish border when a U.S. drone targeted and struck his vehicle.
U.S. troops have killed Abu Sayyaf, whose role in the ISIS organization was akin to CFO. Abu Sayyaf, originally from Tunisia, oversaw ISIS’s black-market oil and gas operations which funded the terrorist network.