A coalition airstrike in Syria killed three "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL) leaders involved in plotting foreign attacks, including two men who helped facilitate last year's attacks in Paris, AFP reported Tuesday (December 13th).
"The three were working together to plot and facilitate attacks against Western targets at the time of the strike," the Pentagon said.
They were killed in a December 4th airstrike in al-Raqa, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said.
Two of those killed -- Salah Eddine Gourmat and Samy Djedou -- were involved in facilitating last year's November 13th Paris attacks, in which 130 people died, he said.
Both were "close associates" of Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, an ISIL spokesman and an external operations leader who was killed in a coalition airstrike in August .
The third person killed was Walid Hamman, who Cook said was a suicide-attack planner who was convicted in absentia in Belgium for a terror plot disrupted in 2015.
All three were part of a network led by Boubaker al-Hakim, a Tunisian killed in an airstrike last month.
