Pentagon: US Airstrike Kills Head of IS in Libya

The U.S. Defense Department says a U.S. airstrike has killed the head of the Islamic State group in Libya. In a statement, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said the target of the strike, Abu Nabil, was an Iraqi national and an al-Qaida operative. Cook described Nabil, also known as Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al-Zubaydi, as the senior IS leader in Libya and said he may have also been the spokesman in the video earlier this year showing the execution of Coptic Christians. "Nabil's...

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