The U.S. military killed a key ISIS facilitator, Bilal al-Sudani, and about 10 ISIS operatives in a counterterrorism mission that resulted in no U.S. casualties, senior administration officials said Thursday.
Officials said that after "extensive planning and exquisite execution of the plan, there were no casualties among American service members or civilians."
Officials say al-Sudani was involved in funding a network of ISIS affiliates around the world. One official said al-Sudani had specifically been funding and expanding ISIS’s reach throughout Africa and through the ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed the assault operation in a statement Thursday afternoon, saying al-Sudani "was responsible for fostering the growing presence of ISIS in Africa and for funding the group’s operations worldwide, including in Afghanistan."
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