Daesh Leaders Responsible For Paris Attacks Killed In Airstrike

An airstrike carried out by US government forces in Raqqa earlier this month has resulted in the deaths of three leaders of the so-called Islamic State (IS), reports have said.

All of the IS leaders were responsible for facilitating external terror operations.

Two of the leaders targeted in the strike - Salah Gourmat, and Sammy Djedou - were involved in the planning of the terrorist attacks in Paris in November last year.

Both men were close associates of Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, the IS external operations leader who was killed in an airstrike in August.

The third IS leader killed in the strike, Walid Hamman, was a suicide bomb planner who was convicted in Belgium for a disrupted terror plot.

All three were part of a network led by Boubaker Al-Hakim, who was killed in another airstrike last month.

The three were working together to plot and facilitate attacks against Western targets at the time of the strike.

The U.S. Department of Defence have released a statement saying:

"Since mid-November, the government has now successfully targeted five top ISIL external plotters, further disrupting ISIL's ability to carry out terrorist operations beyond Syria and Iraq...Those who seek to attack the United States, our coalition partners and allies around the world will find no safe haven." 

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