Bilal al-Sudani, top ISIL leader assassinated

Two senior US officials, who asked not to be named, briefed the press on the raid on a “mountain cave complex” in northern Somalia last night to seize the Sudanese, in their online meeting.

Noting that Sudani was killed during clashes that broke out during the US military’s operation in a “mountainous cave complex”, authorities reported that there were no civilian or military deaths as a result of the operation, only one US soldier. he was injured by a military operation dog.

Stating that planning for the raid in question took months, the officials claimed that President Joe Biden, who was briefed by the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) last week, also approved the operation earlier this week. week.

The officials stated that the Sudani “mountain cave complex” provides financial and logistical support to the operational activities of the ISIS terrorist organization around the world, particularly in Africa and Afghanistan. The officials noted that Sudani had a “long history of terrorism” before joining ISIS.

Sudani, who was placed on the US Treasury Department’s sanctions list in 2012, was also alleged to have organized the participation of foreign fighters in the training camps of the terrorist organization al-Shabab and worked to provide funding for this organization.

The officials said they briefed other major US allies, including the Somali government, about the counterterrorism operation. (AA)