Adedokun Waliyu 
The military statement added that his death “will temporarily disrupt the organization’s ability to plot external attacks.”
Asenior member of the Islamic State group who was in charge of planning attacks in Europe has been killed in a drone strike.
According to a statement by the United States military on Tuesday, the man identified as Khalid Aydd Ahmad al- Jabouri was killed on Monday in a strike carried out by the American-led coalition in northwestern Syria, AP News reports.
The military statement added that his death “will temporarily disrupt the organization’s ability to plot external attacks.”
Monday’s strike was the latest by the U.S. military to kill a top official with the extremist group that once controlled large parts of Iraq and Syria, where it declared a “caliphate.”
From the areas they once controlled, the extremists planned deadly attacks in Europe that killed scores of people. In recent years, such attacks have decreased because the Islamic State group lost the last sliver of land it controlled in March 2019.
The extremist sleeper cells are still launching deadly attacks in Syria and Iraq.
Opposition activists in northwest Syria said the man killed showed up in the area about 10 days ago claiming to be a displaced person from the eastern province of Deir el-Zour, bordering Iraq.
Al-Jabouri is one of Iraq’s biggest tribes that also has a presence in east and north Syria and the man might have said that he was from Deir el-Zour to hide his Iraqi identity as residents of east Syria speak Arabic dialect similar to the one spoken in Iraq.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said on Monday that one person was killed in a drone strike near the rebel-held village of Kefteen. The Observatory’s chief Rami Abdurrahman identified the dead man as an Iraqi citizen who was struck with a missile as he spoke on his cellular phone outside the home he rented.
The opposition’s Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, said it evacuated the man from the scene of the attack and he later succumbed to his wounds
The strike was the latest in a series of attacks over the past years targeting al-Qaida-linked militants and senior members of the Islamic State group in northwestern Syria.
