An air strike carried out by the United States last week killed Abu Afghan Al-Masri, a “senior al Qaeda leader,” near Sarmada, Syria, on Nov. 18, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said on Tuesday. Cook, speaking during a press briefing, told reporters that Al-Masri, an Egyptian, originally joined al Qaeda in ...
The United States on Tuesday added three senior ISIL group figures on its terror watch list, including an alleged planner behind bloody attacks in Paris and Brussels. The US State Department named Abdelilah Himich, known under the nom de guerre Abu Suleiman Al-Faransi, as the founder of a 300-strong “European ...
