Key ISIS leader killed in apparent US air strike in Syria

Syria: Islamic State (ISIS) spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, one of the jihadist group's founder and longest-serving and most prominent leaders, has been killed in Aleppo in Syria, reports the group's Amaq News Agency on Tuesday.

According to Amaq, Adnani was killed "while surveying the operations to repel the military campaigns against Aleppo" but did not say how Adnani was killed.

The Islamic State group who controls territory in the province of Aleppo published a eulogy dated August 29 but gave no further details.

Latest advances by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias, and Syrian rebels backed by Turkey, have made progress into Islamic State territories in Aleppo province, cutting them off from the Turkish border and all supply lines along it.

According to the Brookings Institution, Adnani who is from Idlib, southwest of Aleppo, Syria pledged allegiance to Islamic State's predecessor al-Qaeda more than 10 years ago and was once imprisoned by US forces in Iraq.


Adnani has been the face of the Sunni militant group, and in May issued a message urging followers to carry out attacks on the United States and Europe during the holy month of Ramadan.