Daesh has announced that its spokesman and overseer of external operations, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, has been killed in Syrias northern city ofAleppo.
On Tuesday, the groups news outlet, Amaq announced that Adnani was killed while surveying the operations to repel the military campaigns against Aleppo.
A US military official was also quoted by Reuters as saying that Adnani was the target of a US strike in the town of al-Bab, but refrained from confirming the terrorists death.
Aleppo has been divided between government forces in the west and the Takfiri terrorists in the east over the past four years. Syrian forces have been engaged in a major operation to liberate the militant-held parts of the province.
Thirty-nine-year-old Adnani had a $5-million USState Department bounty on his head -- an amount secondonly to that of the groups leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Adnani was one of the groups founding members and was reportedly one of its main proponents of launching attacks against Western countries. He also oversaw recruiting and trainingoperations for attacks against Europe. According to the SITE Intel Group, Daesh has threatened revenge over Adnanis death.
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Smoke billows near Castello road leading to Bani Zeid during an operation by Syrian government forces to retake control of the militant-held district of Leramun, on the northwest outskirts of Aleppo, on July 26, 2016. (AFP)[/caption]The Takfiri militants operating in Syria have suffered major setbacks over the past few months as the Syrian army has managed to liberate several areas.
Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011.United Nations Special Envoy for SyriaStaffan de Misturaestimates that over 400,000 people have been killed in the conflict in Syria.
The UN has stopped its official casualty count in Syria, citing its inability to verify the figures it receives from various sources.
By Press TV
