The United States Armed Forces Central Command (Centcom) confirmed the death of the leader of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group in Syria, Maher al Agal, in an American air strike on Tuesday (12).
“In addition to being a veteran leader of the group, Agal was responsible for strongly promoting the development of IS networks outside Iraq and Syria,” the organization said in a statement. According to Centcom, there were no civilian casualties in the attack, which also injured one of the terrorist leader’s closest associates.
“The attack reaffirms Centcom’s commitment to the region and the definitive defeat of IS,” one of the command’s spokesman, Joe Buccino, said in the text, in addition to adding that the group “remains a threat to the United States and its allies in the region”.
The NGO Syrian Observatory for Human Rights earlier warned that Agal had been killed during a US attack on a Turkish-occupied area in Aleppo province. The attack came months after another US operation killed the previous “caliph”, Abu Ibrahim al Hashimi al Qurashi, in northwest Syria.
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