A US air strike has killed the leader of the Islamic State (IS) group
in Libya, the Pentagon says.Iraqi national Abu Nabil, also known as Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al-Zubaydi, was a "longtime al-Qaeda operative and the senior ISIL leader in Libya", it said, using another acronym for IS.
The air strike took place on Friday night.
The Pentagon said the strike demonstrated that it would "go after ISIL leaders wherever they operate".
Source: BBC
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