IS British Hacker Killed in US Airstrike in Syria

The Islamic State group’s top English-speaking hacker and recruiter has been killed in an airstrike in what some U.S. officials are calling “another major blow” to the terror group. U.S. Central Command spokesman Colonel Patrick Ryder confirmed that Junaid Hussain was killed August 24 in a U.S. strike in Raqqa, Syria. Hussain, a British citizen who also went by the name Abu Hussain al Britani, had been high on the Pentagon's list of most-wanted Islamic State targets. "This...

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