US-led coalition strike kills IS leader in Syria: Pentagon

The US-led coalition has killed a key leader of the Islamic State jihadist group in Syria, the Pentagon said today.

"Coalition warplanes targeted and killed Tunisian Boubaker al-Hakim, in Raqqa, Syria, November 26," Pentagon spokesman Ben Sakrisson said in a statement emailed to AFP. "Al-Hakim was an ISIL leader and longtime terrorist with deep ties to French and Tunisian Jihadist elements.