France said Thursday that its troops deployed in Africa’s Sahel region had killed the head of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, who had been hunted for years over deadly attacks on US soldiers and French aid workers.
Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi formed the ISGS in 2015 after splitting with jihadist linked to Al-Qaeda and pledging allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group, which at the time controlled swathes of Iraq and Syria.
Sahrawi was “neutralised by French forces,” President Emmanuel Macron tweeted early Thursday, calling it “another major success in our fight against terrorist groups in the Sahel.”
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The French troops have actually used their weapons? I am impressed.