According to the newspaper’s sources, US intelligence services learned of the death of the IS terrorist in an operation carried out by the Taliban in early April. It was unclear whether the Taliban specifically targeted the man or whether he was killed in one of the many clashes between Taliban and Islamic State fighters. Also, no details about the man’s death have been mentioned, even his name is unknown.
The US government on Monday began notifying relatives of US troops killed in the attack of the death of the IS leader. They were told that the man had been killed in “the past few weeks”.
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