US Troops in Syria Kill Daesh Leader Blamed for Turkey Attack
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US forces operating in Syria killed a senior member of Daesh [the Arabic acronym for the Takfiri ‘ISIS/ISIL' group] blamed for an attack on a club that left 39 dead, officials said Friday.
"We will reach you anywhere," Brett McGurk, the US diplomat who coordinates the coalition fighting the terrorist group in Iraq and Syria, said in a tweet confirming the death.
Officials identified the slain militant as Abdurakhmon Uzbeki, and described him as a close associate of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Daesh's self-declared "caliphate."
They said he helped coordinate the movement and funding of foreign fighter cells, and was behind the January 1 gun attack on revelers at the Reina club in Istanbul.
He is said to have been killed on April 6 in Mayadin, a town on the Euphrates River near Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria, in an area that is regularly targeted by coalition air strikes.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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