U.S. military airstrikes killed two senior al-Qaeda operatives in Syria in two separate raids, Pentagon has confirmed.
In a statement on Thursday, Pentagon confirmed that Mohammad Habib Boussadoun al-Tunisi, an al-Qaeda external operations commander was killed in U.S air raids conducted on January 17 near Syria’s Idlib.
Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook further said the slain terrorists was a Tunisian national and was deeply involved in extremist facilitation and external operations of the Al-Qaeda. He is also involved in terrorist’s plots to attack Western targets.
In a separate statement, Cook said American forces killed al-Qaeda facilitator Abd al-Jalil al-Muslimi in a precision airstrike near Saraqib in northwestern Syria on January 12.
Al-Muslimi is believed to have receive training from Taliban militants in the late 1990s in Afghanistan.
He had extensive and long-standing ties to numerous al-Qaeda external operations planners and terrorists
According to Cook, both men were Tunisian.
