The US military says its airstrikes have killed two senior al-Qaeda operatives in Syria in two separate incidents.
The Pentagon said in a statement on Thursday, “Mohammad Habib Boussadoun al-Tunisi, an al-Qaeda external operations leader, was killed by a US precision airstrike Jan. 17 near Idlib, Syria.”
“The deceased terrorist, a Tunisian, was involved in extremist facilitation and external operations and has been connected to terrorist plots to attack Western targets,” Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said.
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.
The statement said the terrorist was trained by 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.
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