US Military Confirms It Killed Senior Terrorist Official

U.S. military officials on Tuesday confirmed that an airstrike in Syria killed a top terrorist leader in ISIS over the past weekend. The U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM, said that it carried out the strike that killed Usamah Jamal Muhammad Ibrahim al-Janabi, described as a “senior ISIS official and facilitator,” according to a statement issued Tuesday. With his death, ISIS’s capacity to “resource and conduct terror attacks” will be disrupted, it added. No civilians were harmed in the airstrike, the command force added. “CENTCOM, alongside allies and partners in the region, will continue to execute operations to degrade ISIS operational capabilities and ensure its enduring defeat,” the statement concluded....